Author: P. G. Drazi
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: stability, hydrodynamic, introduction
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $47.99
ISBN-10: 0521009650
ISBN-13: 9780521009652

Instability of flows and their transition to turbulence are widespread phenomena in engineering and the natural environment. They are important in applied mathematics, astrophysics, biology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, and engineering. This is a graduate-level textbook to introduce these phenomena by modeling them mathematically, and describing numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. The visualization of instabilities is emphasized with many figures. Many worked examples and exercises for students illustrate the ideas of the text. Readers are assumed to be fluent

Author: P. G. Drazi
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: applied, mathematics, texts, cambridge, systems, nonlinear
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1992-06-26
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 0521406684
ISBN-13: 9780521406680

A coherent treatment of nonlinear systems covering chaos, fractals, and bifurcation, as well as equilibrium, stability, and nonlinear oscillations. The systems treated are mostly of difference and differential equations. The author introduces the mathematical properties of nonlinear systems as an integrated theory, rather than simply presenting isolated fashionable topics. The topics are discussed in as concrete a way as possible, worked examples and problems are used to motivate and illustrate the general principles. More advanced parts of the text are denoted by asterisks, thus making it ide