Fluid mechanics / Pijush K. Kundu, Ira M. Cohen, David R. Dowling ; with contributions by Grétar Tryggvason.

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Kundu, Pijush K. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Sixth edition.
Published/​Created
  • London : Academic Press : Elsevier, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
xxiv, 921 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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        Includes bibliographical references and index.
        Contents
        • 1. Introduction
        • Fluid mechanics
        • Units of measurement
        • Solids, liquids, and gases
        • Continuum hypothesis
        • Molecular transport phenomena
        • Surface tension
        • Fluid statics
        • Classical thermodynamics
        • Perfect gas
        • Stability of stratified fluid media
        • Dimensional analysis
        • 2. Cartesian tensors
        • Scalars, vectors, tensors, notation
        • Rotation of axes : formal definition of a vector
        • Multiplication of matrices
        • Second-order tensors
        • Contraction and multiplication
        • Force on a surface
        • Kronecker Delta and alternating tensor
        • Vector dot and cross products
        • Gradient, divergence, and curl
        • Symmetric and antisymmetric tensors
        • Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of a symmetric tensor
        • Gauss' Theorem
        • Stokes' Theorem
        • 3. Kinematics
        • Introduction and coordinate systems
        • Particle and field descriptions of fluid motion
        • Flow lines, fluid acceleration, and Galilean transformation
        • Strain and rotation rates
        • Kinematics of simple plane flows
        • Reynolds Transport Theorem
        • 4. Conservation laws
        • Introduction
        • Conservation of mass
        • Stream functions
        • Conservation of momentum
        • constitutive equation for a Newtonian fluid
        • Navier-Stokes momentum equation
        • Noninertial frame of reference
        • Conservation of energy
        • Special forms of the equation
        • Boundary conditions
        • Dimensionless forms of the equations and dynamic similarity
        • 5. Vorticity dynamics
        • Kelvin's and Helmholtz's Theorems
        • Vorticity equation in an inertial frame of reference
        • Velocity induced by a vortex filament : Law of Biot and Savart
        • Vorticity equation in a rotating frame of reference
        • Interaction of vortices
        • Vortex sheet
        • 6. Computational fluid dynamics
        • The Advection-Diffusion equation
        • Incompressible flows in rectangular domains
        • Flow in complex domains
        • Velocity-pressure method for compressible flow
        • 7. Ideal flow
        • Relevance of Irrotational Constant-Density Flow Theory
        • Two-dimensional stream function and velocity potential
        • Construction of elementary flows in two dimensions
        • Complex potential
        • Forces on a two-dimensional body
        • Conformal mapping
        • Axissymmetric ideal flow
        • Three-dimensional potential flow and apparent mass
        • 8. Gravity waves
        • Linear liquid-surface gravity waves
        • Influence of surface tension
        • Standing waves
        • Group velocity, energy flux, and dispersion
        • Nonlinear waves in shallow and deep water
        • Waves on a density interface
        • Internal waves in a continuously stratified fluid
        • 9. Laminar flow
        • Exact solutions for steady incompressible viscous flow
        • Elementary Lubrication Theory
        • Similarity solutions for unsteady incompressible viscous flow
        • Flows with oscillations
        • Low Reynolds Number viscous flow past a sphere
        • 10. Boundary layers and related topics
        • Boundary-layer thickness definitions
        • Boundary layer on a flat plate : Blasius Solution
        • Falkner-Skan similarity solutions of the laminar boundary-layer equations
        • Von Karman Momentum Integral Equation
        • Thwaites' Method
        • Transition, pressure gradients, and boundary-layer separation
        • Flow past a circular cylinder
        • Flow past a sphere and the dynamics of sports balls
        • Two-dimensional jets
        • Secondary flows
        • 11. Method of normal modes
        • Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
        • Thermal instability : the Bénard problem
        • Double-diffusive instability
        • Centrifugal instability : Taylor problem
        • Instability of continuously stratified parallel flows
        • Squire's theorem and the Orr-Sommerfeld equation
        • Inviscid stability of parallel flows
        • Experimental verification of boundary-layer instability
        • Comments on nonlinear effects
        • Transition
        • Deterministic chaos
        • 12. Turbulence-
        • Nomenclature and statistics for turbulent flow
        • Correlations and spectra
        • Averaged equations of motion
        • Homogeneous isotropic turbulence
        • Turbulent energy cascade and spectrum
        • Free turbulent shear flows
        • Wall-bounded turbulent shear flows
        • Turbulence modeling
        • Taylor's Theory of Turbulent Dispersion
        • 13. Geophysical fluid dynamics
        • Vertical variation of density in the atmosphere and ocean
        • Equations of motion for geophysical flows
        • Geostrophic flow
        • Ekman layers
        • Shallow-water equations
        • Normal modes in a continuously stratified layer
        • High- and low-frequency regimes in shallow-water equations
        • Gravity waves with rotation
        • Kelvin wave
        • Potential vorticity conservation in Shallow-Water Theory
        • INternal waves
        • Rossby wave
        • Barotropic instability
        • Baroclinic instability
        • Geostrophic turbulence
        • 14. Aerodynamics
        • Aircraft terminology
        • Characteristics of airfoil sections
        • Conformal transformation for generating airfoil shapes
        • Life of Zhukhovsky Airfoil
        • Elementary lifting line theory for wings of finite span
        • Life and drag characteristics of airfoils
        • Propulsive mechanisms of fish and birds
        • Sailing against the wind
        • 15. Compressible flow
        • Acoustics
        • One-dimensional steady isentropic compressible flow in variable-area ducts
        • Normal shock waves
        • Operation of nozzles at different back pressures
        • Effects of friction and heating in constant-area ducts
        • ONe-dimensional unsteady compressible flow in constant-area ducts
        • Two-dimensional steady compressible flow
        • Thin-airfoil theory in supersonic flow
        • 16. Introduction to biofluid mechanics (online chapter) / Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy
        • The circulatory system in the human body
        • Modeling of flow in blood vessels
        • Introduction to the fluid mechanics of plants.
        ISBN
        • 9780124059351
        • 012405935X
        OCLC
        913451491
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