Understanding fluid flow
By: Grae Worster
Contributors: African Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Series: AIMS library series; AIMS library series
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780521132893
Subjects: Mathematical models; Strömungsmechanik; Fluid dynamics; Mathematische Physik
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101) and index.
Table of contents: title: Building intuition; title: Viscous fluids; title: Normal stress; title: The no-slip condition; title: A viscous gravity current; title: Dynamic viscosity; title: Tangential shear stress; title: Parallel viscous flow; title: Momentum equation; title: Boundary conditions; title: Parallel flow in a channel; title: Poiseuille flow in a pipe; title: Film flow on a vertical surface; title: Couette versus Poiseuille; title: Unsteady parallel viscous flows; title: Kinematic viscosity; title: Viscous boundary layers; title: Viscous gravity currents; title: Scaling analysis; title: Velocity profile and volume flux; title: Conservation of mass; title: Similarity solution; title: Equations of flow; title: The Navier-Stokes momentum equation; title: Hydrostatic and dynamic pressure; title: Mass conservation; title: Stream functions; title: Scaling the Navier-Stokes equations; title: Stagnation-point flow; title: Viscous boundary layer; title: Bernoulli's theorem; title: The momentum integral; title: Interactions between linear flows; title: Linear flow; title: Pure straining flow; title: Vorticity; title: The vorticity equation; title: Vortex stretching; title: Dissipation and generation of vorticity; title: Flows around rigid objects; title: Irrotational incompressible potential flow; title: Potential flow past a sphere; title: The force in potential flow; title: Flow separation and drag; title: The origin of separation; title: Circulation around a rigid body; title: Irrotational flow with circulation; title: causing lift; title: Waving and instability; title: Energy conservation in potential flow; title: Waves on deep water; title: Properties of deep-water waves; title: Ship wakes; title: Group velocity; title: Hydrodynamic instability; title: Turbulence.