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Topics in fluid mechanics

Title
Topics in fluid mechanics / Rene Chevray, Jean Mathieu.
Author
Chevray, Rene.
Publication
Cambridge, CB ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Mathieu, Jean, 1924-
Description
xv, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This book offers a novel but unified treatment of an established subject. Rather than describe the standard topics in fluid mechanics in traditional form, the book presents each topic as part of a wider class of problems so that a unity of concepts is emphasized over a unity of material." "The authors have aimed for simplicity in presentation, stressing physical understanding over mathematical development. Specialized subjects such as chaotic advection and chaos and the onset of turbulence - problems that are being tackled in research and industry now - are given particular attention." "This text is intended for students of fluid mechanics, primarily at the graduate level, but it will also be of interest and value to workers in the field of fluid mechanics. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Hydromechanik
  • Strömungsmechanik
  • Fluides, Mécanique des
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Basic concepts -- Toward a constitutive law for fluid materials -- Vorticity laws -- Fundamental concepts of turbulence -- Dynamical systems and chaotic advection -- Chaos and the onset of turbulence -- Boundary layer theory -- Wave propagation -- Fundamentals of classical thermodynamics.
ISBN
  • 0521410827
  • 9780521410823
  • 0521422728
  • 9780521422727
LCCN
92010886
OCLC
  • ocm25712862
  • 25712862
  • SCSB-9237205
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library