Author: Rama Govindarajan
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: turbulent, sixth, laminar, transition, symposium, iutam, mechanics, applications, fluid, bangalore, proceedings, india
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2006-03-08
List price: $184.00
ISBN-10: 1402034598
ISBN-13: 9781402034596

The dynamics of transition from laminar to turbulent flows remains to this day a major challenge in theoretical and applied mechanics. The subject is of significance in diverse areas like gas turbines, underwater applications, flow control etc. This volume contains 67 papers on instabilities, transition, flow control, etc., of presentations made during the sixth IUTAM symposium on laminar-turbulent transition, Bangalore 2004. It thus equips the reader with the latest in research in this area.

Authors:Philipp Schlatter, Dan S. Henningson,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: iutam, transition, seventh, turbulent, laminar, symposium, bookseries, sweden, proceedings, stockholm
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2009-12-14
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 9048137225
ISBN-13: 9789048137220

The dynamics of transition from laminar to turbulent flows remains to this day a major challenge in theoretical and applied mechanics. The subject is of significance in diverse areas like gas turbines, underwater applications, flow control etc. This volume will contain approximately 100 papers on flow instability, transition to turbulence, flow control, etc., of presentations made during the seventh IUTAM symposium on laminar-turbulent transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009. It thus equips the reader with the latest inresearch in this area. For the present volume, the areas of emphasis are: Novel

Author: P. A. Lagerstrom
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: theory, flow, laminar
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-05-13
List price: $67.50
ISBN-10: 0691025983
ISBN-13: 9780691025988

Fluid mechanics is one of the greatest accomplishments of classical physics. The Navier-Stokes equations, first derived in the eighteenth century, serve as an accurate mathematical model with which to describe the flow of a broad class of real fluids. Not only is the subject of interest to mathematicians and physicists, but it is also indispensable to mechanical, aeronautical, and chemical engineers, who have to apply the equations to real-world examples, such as the flow of air around an aircraft wing or the motion of liquid droplets in a suspension. In this book, which first appeared in a co

Author: David F. Rogers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: analysis, flow, laminar
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 1992-10-30
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521411521
ISBN-13: 9780521411523

The major thrust of this book is to present a technique of analysis that aids the formulation, understanding, and solution of problems of viscous flow. The intent is to avoid providing a "canned" program to solve a problem, offering instead a way to recognize the underlying physical, mathematical, and modeling concepts inherent in the solutions. The reader must first choose a mathematical model and derive governing equations based on realistic assumptions, or become aware of the limitations and assumptions associated with existing models. An appropriate solution technique is then selected.

Author: George Staab Educated to Ph.D. at Purdue
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: composites, laminar
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1999-06-16
List price: $88.95
ISBN-10: 0750671246
ISBN-13: 9780750671248

This text provides students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to identify, model, and solve structural analysis problems. The material is illustrated throughout with numerous diagrammatic examples, as well as example problems similar in nature to those found in lower level strength of materials texts. The difficulty of these and the homework problems varies from simple to complex. A solutions manual is provided for lecturers who adopt the book for classroom teaching. This book mirrors the teaching method used in strength of materials courses taught in the first yea

Authors:Tom Mullin, R. R. Kerswell,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: solutions, fluid, mechanics, applications, amplitude, finite, symposium, laminar, turbulent, transition, iutam
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2005-10-26
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 1402040482
ISBN-13: 9781402040481

An exciting new direction in hydrodynamic stability theory and the transition to turbulence is concerned with the role of disconnected states or finite amplitude solutions in the evolution of disorder in fluid flows. This volume contains refereed papers presented at the IUTAM/LMS sponsored symposium on "Non-Uniqueness of Solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations and their Connection with Laminar-Turbulent Transition" held in Bristol 2004. Theoreticians and experimentalists gathered to discuss developments in understanding both the onset and collapse of disordered motion in shear flows such as t

Authors:Tuncer Cebeci, Jean Cousteix,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: flows, boundary, layers, compressible, incompressible, transitional, laminar, computation, layer, modeling, turbulent
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 2005-07-21
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 354024459X
ISBN-13: 9783540244592

This second edition of Modeling and Computation of Boundary Layer Flows extends the topic to include compressible flows including the energy equation and non-constant fluid properties in the continuity and momentum equations. The necessary additions are included in new chapters, leaving the first nine chapters to serve as an introduction to incompressible flows that can be used as an introduction to computational fluid dynamics with emphasis on the solution of the boundary-layer equations and the modeling and computation of boundary-layer flows. It also provides readers with a good understandi