Interfacial Instability
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 10, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780387954806
Subjects: Applied physics & special topics; Engineering: general; Fluid Mechanics; Mechanical Engineering & Materials; Thermodynamics; Surface Physics; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Mechanical; Mechanical; Mechanics - Dynamics - Fluid Dynamics; Science / Mechanics / Dynamics / Fluid Dynamics; Mechanics - General; Physics; Fluid dynamics; Interfaces (Physical sciences); Jets; Stability; Surface tension
First sentence: To begin a series of essays on hydrodynamic stability we can do no better than to go back more than 100 years and explain Rayleigh's first calculations on the stability of a cylindrical thread of liquid, a liquid jet.