Scaling

ISBN-13: 9780521826570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 188 str.

G. I. Barenblatt

Opis

Starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity, G. Barenblatt describes the art of discovering scaling laws. He demonstrates the concepts of intermediate asymptotics and the renormalization group as natural consequences of self-similarity and shows how and when these tools can tackle the task at hand, and when they cannot. Based on courses taught to undergraduate and graduate students, the book can also be used independently by biologists, chemists, astronomers, engineers and geoscientists.

Recenzje

' … a superb introduction …' Zentralblatt MATH

Spis treści

Foreword; Introduction; 1. Dimensional analysis and physical similarity; 2. Self-similarity and intermediate asymptotics; 3. Scaling laws and self-similar solutions which cannot be obtained by dimensional analysis; 4. Complete and incomplete similarity; 5. Scaling and transformation groups and the renormalisation group; 6. Self-similar solutions and traveling waves; 7. Scaling laws and fractals; 8. Scaling laws for turbulent wall-bounded shear flows at very large Reynolds numbers; References; Index.