Incompressible Fluid Dynamics - Softcover

Davidson, P. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198869126 ISBN 13: 9780198869122

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2021

Synopsis

Incompressible Fluid Dynamics is a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of engineering, applied mathematics, and geophysics. The text comprises topics that establish the broad conceptual framework of the subject, expose key phenomena, and play an important role in the myriad of applications that exist in both nature and technology.

The first half of the book covers topics that include the inviscid equations of Euler and Bernoulli, the Navier-Stokes equation and some of its simpler exact solutions, laminar boundary layers and jets, potential flow theory with its various applications to aerodynamics, the theory of surface gravity waves, and flows with negligible inertia, such as suspensions, lubrication layers, and swimming micro-organisms.

The second half is more specialised. Vortex dynamics, which is so essential to many natural phenomena in fluid mechanics, is developed in detail. This is followed by chapters on stratified fluids and flows subject to a strong background rotation, both topics being central to our understanding of atmospheric and oceanic flows. Fluid instabilities and the transition to turbulence are also covered, followed by two chapters on fully developed turbulence.

The text is largely self-contained, and aims to combine mathematical precision with a breadth of engineering and geophysical applications. Throughout, physical insight is given priority over mathematical detail.

About this title

About the Author

P. A. Davidson, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198869126
• ISBN 13: 9780198869122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528