An Introduction to Compressible Flows with Applications: Quasi-One-Dimensional Approximation and General Formulation for Subsonic, Transonic and Super

ISBN-13: 9783030332525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 129 str.

Jose Pontes; Norberto Mangiavacchi; Gustavo R. Anjos

Recenzje

"The book under review is suitable for advanced undergraduate students or beginning graduate students, and also researchers in academia and in industry. ... I recommend this book to all the people interested in this field." (Titus Petrila, zbMATH 1435.76003, 2020)

Spis treści

Preface.- Compressible Potential Flows.- One-dimensional Compressible Flows.- Oblique Shocks.- Uniform Flows with Small Perturbations.- The Basic Equations of Compressible Fluid Flow.

O autorze

José Pontes is an Aeronautical Engineer and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil. He holds a PhD in Physics (1994) from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and completed postdoctoral studies at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. His research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, finite differences methods, hydrodynamic stability and pattern formation.

Norberto Mangiavacchi is a Mechanical Engineer and Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil. He completed his PhD (1994) in Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan, USA, with studies at the CERFACS – Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée in Calcul Scientifique, in Toulouse, France. He research focuses on numerical simulation, finite element methods, free surfaces, turbulence, and two-phase flows.

Gustavo R. Anjos, a Mechanical Engineer, is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil. He holds a PhD (2012) from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, with postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. His research interests include numerical simulation, multi-phase flows, heat and mass transfer, and computational fluid dynamics.