Stability Criteria for Fluid Flows

This is a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the mathematical problems of thermal convection. The book delineates the main ideas leading to the authors' variant of the energy method. These can be also applied to other variants of the energy method. The importance of the book lies in its focussing on the best concrete results known in the domain of fluid flows stability and in the systematic treatment of mathematical instruments used in order to reach them.

List of contents

Mathematical Models Governing Fluid Flows Stability; Incompressible Navier-Stokes Fluid. Universal Stability Criteria, Linearization Principle; Elements of Calculus of Variations; Variants of Energy Method for Nonstationary Equations; Applications of Direct Methods Based on Fourier Series to Linear Benard Convections; Variational Methods Applied to Linear Stability; Applications of the Direct Method to Linear Stability.

Product details

• Authors: Georgescu Adelina, Adelina Georgescu, Lidia Palese
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 249 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Series on Advances in Mathemat
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics