Understanding Fluid Flow [Paperback]

A short introduction to fluid mechanics that emphasises the importance of viscosity.Understanding Fluid Flow takes a fresh approach to introducing fluid dynamics, with physical reasoning and mathematical developments inextricably intertwined. It gives a flavour of theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches to analysing fluid flow, and implicitly develops skills in applied mathematical modelling. It is supplemented by movies that are freely downloadable.Understanding Fluid Flow takes a fresh approach to introducing fluid dynamics, with physical reasoning and mathematical developments inextricably intertwined. It gives a flavour of theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches to analysing fluid flow, and implicitly develops skills in applied mathematical modelling. It is supplemented by movies that are freely downloadable.Understanding Fluid Flow takes a fresh approach to introducing fluid dynamics, with physical reasoning and mathematical developments inextricably intertwined. The dry' fluid dynamics described by potential theory is set within the context of real viscous flows to give fundamental insight into how fluids behave. The book gives a flavor of theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches to analyzing fluid flow, and implicitly develops skills in applied mathematical modeling of physical systems. It is supplemented by movies that are freely downloadable.Preface; 1. Building intuition; 2. Parallel viscous flow; 3. Viscous gravity currents; 4. Equations of flow; 5. Interactions between linear flows; 6. Flows round rigid objects; 7. Waves and instability; Bibliography; Index. The accounts collated in this book...is encouraging, not only for the survival of the great apes, but the many other organisms that share their habitat .
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