By Oded Regev
This ebook grew out of the necessity to offer scholars with a superior advent to smooth fluid dynamics. It bargains a extensive grounding within the underlying ideas and methods used, with some emphasis on purposes in astrophysics and planetary science.
The book comprehensively covers recent developments, equipment and methods, together with, for instance, new principles on transitions to turbulence (via transiently turning out to be solid linear modes), new methods to turbulence (which continues to be the enigma of fluid dynamics), and using asymptotic approximation equipment, that could supply analytical or semi-analytical effects and supplement absolutely numerical remedies. The authors additionally in short speak about a few vital concerns to be taken into consideration while constructing a numerical code for machine simulation of fluid flows.
Although the textual content is populated all through with examples and difficulties from the sphere of astrophysics and planetary technological know-how, the textual content is eminently compatible as a common advent to fluid dynamics. it's assumed that the readers are mathematically outfitted with a cheap wisdom in research, together with fundamentals of standard and partial differential equations and a superb command of vector calculus and linear algebra.
Each bankruptcy concludes with bibliographical notes in which the authors in brief speak about the chapter's essential literature and provides concepts for additional, deeper reading. integrated in every one bankruptcy are a host of problems, a few of them relevant to astrophysics and planetary science. The ebook is written for complicated undergraduate and graduate scholars, yet also will end up a useful resource of reference for demonstrated researchers.
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