Shock Waves & Explosions: 132 (Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics) - Softcover

Sachdev, P.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367394170 ISBN 13: 9780367394172

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2019

Synopsis

Understanding the causes and effects of explosions is important to experts in a broad range of disciplines, including the military, industrial and environmental research, aeronautic engineering, and applied mathematics. Offering an introductory review of historic research, Shock Waves and Explosions brings analytic and computational methods to a wide audience in a clear and thorough way. Beginning with an overview of the research on combustion and gas dynamics in the 1970s and 1980s, the author brings you up to date by covering modeling techniques and asymptotic and perturbative methods and ending with a chapter on computational methods. Most of the book deals with the mathematical analysis of explosions, but computational results are also included wherever they are available. Historical perspectives are provided on the advent of nonlinear science, as well as on the mathematical study of the blast wave phenomenon, both when visualized as a point explosion and when simulated as the expansion of a high-pressure gas. This volume clearly reveals the ingenuity of the human mind to conceptualize, model, and mathematically analyze highly complicated nonlinear phenomena such as nuclear explosions. It presents a solid foundation of knowledge that encourages further research and original ideas.

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Sachdev, P.L.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367394170
• ISBN 13: 9780367394172
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Jeffrey Alan, Brezis Haim