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Title

Fluid physics : lecture notes of summer schools / edited by Manuel G. Velarde & Christo I. Christov.

Publication

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Velarde, Manuel G. (Manuel García)
• Christov, Christo I.
• Fluid Physics Summer School.
• International Conference on Interfacial Phenomena (1994 : Madrid, Spain)

Description

xiii, 597 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

World Scientific series on nonlinear science. Series B ; vol. 5

Uniform Title

World Scientific series on nonlinear science. Series B, Special theme issues and proceedings ; v. 5.

Subjects

• Fluids > Congresses
• Fluid mechanics > Congresses

Note

• "Contains part of the material delivered in lectures, seminars and other invited talks at four Fluid Physics Summer Schools (1990-93) held in Almería (Spain) ... and at the International Conference on Interfacial Phenomena held in February 1994 in Madrid (Spain)"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. Self-similar solutions in fluid mechanics / M. Van Dyke -- 2. Electrohydrodynamics: Basic equations and dimensionless numbers / A. Castellanos -- 3. On the mechanics of localized structures in continuous media / C. I. Christov -- 4. Dynamics of vortices in nonlinear fields / L. M. Pismen -- 5. Laminar incompressible jet in a weak crossflow / F. J. Higuera -- 6. Statistical mechanical treatment of inhomogeneous fluids: Molecular simulation and density functional theory / K. E. Gubbins -- 7. The effective properties of two-phase materials having random structure / A. Acrivos -- 8. Behaviour of fluids in micropores / K. E. Gubbins -- 9. Analysis of Steele's theory of monolayer adsorption / F. Cuadros and A. Mulero -- 10. Some aspects of macromolecular dynamics / E. Riande -- 11. Interfacial tension and adsorption at liquid-liquid interfaces: Measurement and theory / A. Passerone -- 12. Liquid bridges and floating zones / I. Martinez and A. Croll --
• 13. Liquid bridges subjected to electric fields / A. Ramos, H. Gonzalez and A. Castellanos -- 14. Foam film stability: Role of micellar interactions on the formation and expansion of spots in stratifying film. An overview / A. D. Nikolov, D. T. Wasan, P. A. Kralchevsky and I. B. Ivanov -- 15. Wetting films driven by surface tension gradients / A. M. Cazabat, J. B. Fournier and P. Carles -- 16. Capillary effects on surface chemical stability / A. Sanfeld -- 17. Oscillatory Marangoni instabilities with adsorption barrier / M. Hennenberg -- 18. Hydrodynamic instabilities in evaporating liquids / A. Steinchen-Sanfeld, M. Lallemant and D. Stuerga -- 19. Microwave heating and selection of hydrodynamic instabilities / D. Stuerga, M. Lallemant, A. Steinchen-Sanfeld and G. Bertrand -- 20. Marangoni instability and self-sustained drop motion / A. Ye. Rednikov, Yu. S. Ryazantsev and M. G. Velarde -- 21. A pathway to interfacial turbulence / M. Santiago, M. Vignes-Adler and M. G. Velarde --
• 22. Waves on ships / J. A. Alaez -- 23. Slowly varying solitary waves / P. D. Weidman -- 24. Internal waves in the stable atmospheric boundary layer overlying an Antarctic ice shelf / J. M. Rees -- 25. Internal solitary waves in stratified shear flows / W. B. Zimmerman and M. G. Velarde -- 26. Numerical investigation of the long-time evolution and interaction of localized waves / C. I. Christov -- 27. Soliton dynamics with inelastic scattering in the classical Boussinesq system / L. Martinez-Alonso, E. Medina-Reus, P. G. Estevez and P. R. Gordoa -- 28. Localized solutions for fluid interfaces via method of variational imbedding / C. I. Christov -- 29. Evidence for solitary waves in Marangoni-Benard convection / P. D. Weidman, H. Linde and M. G. Velarde -- 30. Further evidence of solitonic behavior in Benard-Marangoni convection: Periodic wave trains / M. G. Velarde, H. Linde, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and W. Waldhelm --
• 31. On the possibility of solitary waves at the surface of a liquid conductor / A. Gonzalez, A. Castellanos and M. G. Velarde -- 32. Dissipation-modified Korteweg-de Vries equation describing Marangoni-Benard convection: Variations on asymptotics / A. Ye. Rednikov, M. G. Velarde and Yu. S. Ryazantsev -- 33. Solitons and dissipation / C. I. Christov and M. G. Velarde -- 34. Analytical description of chaotic oscillations in a toroidal thermosyphon / A. Linan -- 35. Chaotic ion trajectories in electroconvection / A. T. Perez and A. Castellanos -- 36. 2D turbulence: The Cauchy problem and the real one / Y. Pomeau -- 37. Energy transfer and constrained simulations in isotropic turbulence / J. Jimenez -- 38. The turbulence evolution in a shear flow of stably stratified fluid / G. I. Barenblatt -- 39. Renormalization group expansion around d [actual symbol not reproducible] 2.066 and turbulence / D. Carati --
• 40. Two point boundary problem for wind field forecasting: Numerical modeling / V. Perez-Munuzuri, J. A. Souto, J. Ramirez and J. J. Casares -- 41. Turbulent mixing in the atmosphere and ocean / J. M. Redondo.

ISBN

9810218990

OCLC

ocm32619626

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries