The Navier-Stokes Equations: An Elementary Functional Analytic Approach (Birkhäuser Advanced Texts Basler Lehrbücher) - Hardcover

Sohr, Hermann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3764365455 ISBN 13: 9783764365455

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2001

Synopsis

The primary objective of this monograph is to develop an elementary and self-contained approach to the mathematical theory of a viscous, incompressible fluid in a domain of the Euclidean space, described by the equations of Navier-Stokes. Moreover, the theory is presented for completely general domains, in particular, for arbitrary unbounded, nonsmooth domains. Therefore, restriction was necessary to space dimensions two and three, which are also the most significant from a physical point of view. For mathematical generality, however, the linearized theory is expounded for general dimensions higher than one. Although the functional analytic approach developed here is, in principle, known to specialists, the present book fills a gap in the literature providing a systematic treatment of a subject that has been documented until now only in fragments. The book is mainly directed to students familiar with basic tools in Hilbert and Banach spaces. However, for the readers' convenience, some fundamental properties of, for example, Sobolev spaces, distributions and operators are collected in the first two chapters.

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Product Description:

This book offers an elementary, self-contained approach to the mathematical theory of viscous, incompressible fluid in a domain of the Euclidian space, described by the equations of Navier-Stokes. It is the first to provide a systematic treatment of the subject. It is designed for students familiar with basic tools in Hilbert and Banach spaces, but fundamental properties of, for example, Sobolev spaces, are collected in the first two chapters.

Review:

From the reviews:

“The book is well written and not unnecessarily wordy. There is an up-to-date bibliography and a nice index. ... a mathematician who wishes to know what the important issues concerning eq. (1) are and what has been achieved, would find this an excellent source. Equally, a mathematically-minded student, with a good grounding in analysis and who has decided to work in this area, or the teacher who wants to teach a course on this material would find this a valuable text.” (P. N. Shankar,Current Science, Vol. 85 (2), July, 2003)

About this edition

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 3764365455
• ISBN 13: 9783764365455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 377