Benard Cells and Taylor Vortices

Klappentext This book describes the motions resulting from heating a fluid layer from below. Zusammenfassung This book describes the motions resulting from heating a fluid layer from below and the motions of a fluid layer between two concentric cylinders when the inner cylinder is rotated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Bénard Convection and Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: 1. Bénard's experiments; 2. Linear theory of Rayleigh-Bénard convection; 3. Theory of surface tension driven Bénard convection; 4. Surface tension driven Bénard convection experiments; 5. Linear Rayleigh-Bénard convection experiments; 6. Supercritical Rayleigh-Bénard convection experiments; 7. Nonlinear theory of Rayleigh-Bénard convection; 8. Miscellaneous topics; Part II. Taylor Vortex Flow: 9. Circular Couette flow; 10. Rayleigh's stability criterion; 11. G. I. Taylor's work; 12. Other early experiments; 13. Supercritical Taylor vortex experiments; 14. Experiments with two independently rotating cylinders; 15. Nonlinear theory of Taylor vortices; 16. Miscellaneous topics.

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• Authors: E. L. Koschmieder, E. L. (University of Texas Koschmieder, E.l. Koschmieder
• Assisted by: G. K. Batchelor (Editor), L. B. Freud (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.1993
• EAN: 9780521402040
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40204-0
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Emory Symposia in Cognition
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Thermodynamics