Understanding Fluid Flow
Published on 14. December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-521-13289-3 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding Fluid Flow takes a fresh approach to introducing fluid dynamics, with physical reasoning and mathematical developments inextricably intertwined. The 'dry' fluid dynamics described by potential theory is set within the context of real viscous flows to give fundamental insight into how fluids behave. The book gives a flavour of theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches to analysing fluid flow, and implicitly develops skills in applied mathematical modelling of physical systems. It is supplemented by movies that are freely downloadable.
Reviews / Votes
"The accounts collated in this book...is encouraging, not only for the survival of the great apes, but the many other organisms that share their habitat".Peter Moore, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society "Worster is commended for rigorously articulating complex phenomena in these short lectures while unraveling the salient features of fluid dynamics, including flow separation and shear layer roll up due to advection of vortices, to name some examples."
R.N. Laoulache, Choice Magazine "I found the book a pleasant read, and I could imagine lecturers finding the exposition helpful in providing tips for class material or a different perspective. I enjoyed the tack taken by the author and his selection of topics. The book certainly gives an idea of the wide application of the methods of mathematics and physics to problems in areas ranging from geophysics to engineering."
Neil Balmforth, SIAM Review
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
162 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-13289-3 (9780521132893)
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Person
Grae Worster studied Mathematics at Cambridge University and gained a PhD in Geological Fluid Mechanics. He was an Instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT, a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University before finally returning to Cambridge University in 1992, where he is Professor of Fluid Dynamics. Within the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, his research encompasses the dynamics of buoyancy-driven flows associated with solidification and melting.
Content
Preface; 1. Building intuition; 2. Parallel viscous flow; 3. Viscous gravity currents; 4. Equations of flow; 5. Interactions between linear flows; 6. Flows round rigid objects; 7. Waves and instability; Bibliography; Index.