Understanding fluid flow:

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...

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Main Author: Worster, Grae (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009
Series:AIMS library series
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary: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
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Building intuition -- Viscous fluids -- Normal stress -- The no-slip condition -- A viscous gravity current -- Dynamic viscosity -- Tangential shear stress -- Parallel viscous flow -- Momentum equation -- Boundary conditions -- Parallel flow in a channel -- Poiseuille flow in a pipe -- Film flow on a vertical surface -- Couette versus Poiseuille -- Unsteady parallel viscous flows -- Kinematic viscosity -- Viscous boundary layers -- Viscous gravity currents -- Scaling analysis -- Velocity profile and volume flux -- Conservation of mass -- Similarity solution -- Equations of flow -- The Navier-Stokes momentum equation -- Hydrostatic and dynamic pressure -- Mass conservation -- Stream functions -- Scaling the Navier-Stokes equations -- Stagnation-point flow -- Viscous boundary layer -- Bernoulli's theorem -- The momentum integral -- Interactions between linear flows -- Linear flow -- Pure straining flow -- Vorticity -- The vorticity equation -- Vortex stretching -- Dissipation and generation of vorticity -- Flows around rigid objects -- Irrotational incompressible potential flow -- Potential flow past a sphere -- The force in potential flow -- Flow separation and drag -- The origin of separation -- Circulation around a rigid body -- Irrotational flow with circulation -- causing lift -- Waving and instability -- Energy conservation in potential flow -- Waves on deep water -- Properties of deep-water waves -- Ship wakes -- Group velocity -- Hydrodynamic instability -- Turbulence
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 104 Seiten)
ISBN:9780511845321
DOI:10.1017/9780511845321

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