ELEMENTARY FLUID MECHANICS - Hardcover

KAMBE TSUTOMU

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812564160 ISBN 13: 9789812564160

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

This textbook describes the fundamental “physical” aspects of fluid flows for beginners of fluid mechanics in physics, mathematics and engineering, from the point of view of modern physics.It also emphasizes the dynamical aspects of fluid motions rather than the static aspects, illustrating vortex motions, waves, geophysical flows, chaos and turbulence. Beginning with the fundamental concepts of the nature of flows and the properties of fluids, the book presents fundamental conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy, and the equations of motion for both inviscid and viscous fluids.In addition to the fundamentals, this book also covers water waves and sound waves, vortex motions, geophysical flows, nonlinear instability, chaos, and turbulence. Furthermore, it includes the chapters on superfluids and the gauge theory of fluid flows.The material in the book emerged from the lecture notes for an intensive course on Elementary Fluid Mechanics for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of theoretical physics given in 2003 and 2004 at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics (Tianjin) in China. Hence, each chapter may be presented separately as a single lecture.

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The author is to be commended for introducing a chapter on the gauge theory of fluid mechanics -- Choice "Choice"

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812564160
• ISBN 13: 9789812564160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 404