Advances in Applied Mechanics
Academic Press
Published on 15. June 1973
342 pages
978-0-08-056391-6 (ISBN)
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Advances in Applied Mechanics
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Yih Chia-Shun
Advances in Applied Mechanics: v. 13
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05/1973
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Content
- Front Cover
- Advances in Applied Mechanics, Volume 13
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Large Scale Ocean Circulation
- Introduction
- I. The Equilibrium Figure of a Self-Gravitating, Rotating, Homogeneous Mass of Fluid
- II. Transformations of the Equations of Motion of a Fluid
- III. The Coriolis Acceleration
- IV. Thermodynamic Simplifications-the Boussinesq Approximation
- V. Scaling of the Equations
- VI. Geostrophic Flow
- VII. Frictional Dissipation
- VIII. Modeling of Current Systems
- IX. The Thermohaline Circulation
- X. Abyssal Circulation
- XI. Laboratory Simulation of Large Scale Circulation (with C. C. Yang)
- References
- Chapter 2. The Wave Resistance of Ships
- I. Introduction
- II. The Measurement of Wave Resistance
- III. The Analytical Theory of Wave Resistance
- Bibliography
- References
- Chapter 3. Dynamics of Quasigeostrophic Flows and Instability Theory
- I. Introduction
- II. Tendency Toward Geostrophic Balance in Rotating Fluids
- III. Simplified Hydrodynamic Equations for Large Scale Quasigeostrophic Flow
- IV. Permanent-Wave Solutions of the Nonlinear Potential Vorticity Equation in Spherical Coordinates
- V. Stability of Zonal Currents for Small Amplitude Quasigeostrophic Disturbances
- VI. General Stability Theory-Integral Relations and Necessary Conditions for Instability
- VII. Stability Characteristics of Barotropic Zonal Currents and Rossby Parameter
- VIII. Pure Baroclinic Disturbances
- IX. Finite Amplitude Unstable Disturbances
- X. Instability Theory of Frontal Waves
- XI. Concluding Remarks
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
