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Advanced Viscous Fluid Flow is an in-depth guide to boundary-layer modeling strategies for fluid dynamicists. The book starts by providing the strong theoretical background essential to understand laminar and turbulent boundary layers in a variety of multidimensional viscous problems for steady and unsteady motions and bounded by either hard or porous walls. Particular attention is given to viscous layers engendered in rotating and oscillating flows, especially those driven by wall-normal or wall-tangential injection. Both differential and integral approaches are covered in detail, with numerous illustrations and test cases based on recent developments in the field.
This is intended as a graduate textbook on viscous motion with a well-balanced mix of engineering applications. It is also a valuable resource for those in academic or industrial research tackling boundary layers in complex, multidimensional problems.
List of contents
1. Introduction and review of fundamentals
2. Dimensional analysis
3. Integral equations for boundary layers
4. Differential analysis: Blasius and other self-preserving similarity solutions
5. Steady multidimensional boundary layers
6. Unsteady multidimensional boundary layers
7. Compressible boundary layers
About the author
Joseph ("Joe?) Majdalani is the Hugh and Loeda Francis Chair of Excellence and Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University. His research focuses on the mathematical and computational modelling of the internal flowfields arising in a variety of rocket engines. His interests span rocket engine design and optimization, rocket internal ballistics, vorticity dynamics, computational mathematics, boundary-layer theory, and singular perturbation theory. He is a Fellow of ASME, Associate Fellow of AIAA, and has received numerous recognitions for his teaching, research, and service including the Auburn University Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2021, the ASEE/AIAA J. Leland Atwood Educator Award in 2018, the Abe M. Zarem Educator Award in 2013 and, again, in 2018, the Solid Rockets Best Paper Award (thrice recipient).
