Essential Fluid Dynamics for Scientists

ISBN-13: 9781681745961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 157 str.

Jonathan Braithwaite

Opis

Provides an introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, essential for students and researchers in many branches of science. It illustrates its fundamental principles with a variety of examples drawn mainly from astrophysics and geophysics as well as from everyday experience. Prior familiarity with basic thermodynamics and vector calculus is assumed.

Spis treści

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Some basic concepts
• 3. Steady flow of an ideal fluid
• 4. Viscosity
• 5. Waves and instabilities
• 6. Shocks
• 7. Vorticity and rotating fluids
• 8. Magnetohydrodynamics: equations and basic concepts
• 9. MHD: astrophysical contexts