Fluid and Thermodynamics: Volume 2: Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamic Fundamentals (Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics)
Brand: Springer
Categories: Books, Science & Math, Mathematics



Dimensions: 6.14 x 1.32 x 9.21 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3319815628
Publisher: Springer
Print length: 653 pages
Publication date: May 30, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-3319815626
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
subtitle: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Edition
author: Kolumban Hutter Yongqi Wang
review: Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover In this book fluid mechanics and thermodynamics (F&T) are approached as interwoven, not disjoint fields. The book starts by analyzing the creeping motion around spheres at rest: Stokes flows, the Oseen correction and the Lagerstrom-Kaplun expansion theories are presented, as is the homotopy analysis. 3D creeping flows and rapid granular avalanches are treated in the context of the shallow flow approximation, and it is demonstrated that uniqueness and stability deliver a natural transition to turbulence modeling at the zero, first order closure level. The difference-quotient turbulence model (DQTM) closure scheme reveals the importance of the turbulent closure schemes’ non-locality effects. Thermodynamics is presented in the form of the first and second laws, and irreversibility is expressed in terms of an entropy balance. Explicit expressions for constitutive postulates are in conformity with the dissipation inequality. Gas dynamics offer a first application of combined F&T. The book is rounded out by a chapter on dimensional analysis, similitude, and physical experiments.