Lagrangian Fluid Dynamics

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Bennett is Professor at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University. Klappentext Provides the first detailed and comprehensive analytical development of the Lagrangian formulation of fluid dynamics. Zusammenfassung Written at graduate level! this 2006 book provides the first detailed and comprehensive analytical development of the Lagrangian formulation of fluid dynamics! of interest not only to applied mathematicians but also oceanographers! meteorologists! mechanical engineers! astrophysicists and indeed all investigators of the dynamics of fluids. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Lagrangian Formulation: 1. Lagrangian kinematics; 2. Lagrangian statistics; 3. Lagrangian dynamics; 4. Coordinates; 5. Real fluids; Part II. Lagrangian Flows: 6. Some analytical Lagrangian solutions; 7. Waves, instabilities and vortices; 8. Viscous incompressible flow; 9. General solvability; Part III. Diffusion: 10. Absolute dispersion; 11. Relative dispersion; 12. Convective subranges, scalar variance spectrum; 13. Diffusion; Part IV. Lagrangian Data: 14. Observing systems; 15. Data analysis: the single particle; 16. Data analysis: particle clusters; References.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Bennett
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2006
• EAN: 9780521853101
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85310-1
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mechan
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Maschinenbau: Strömungsmechanik, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Fluids