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SLOW VISCOUS FLOWS
Qualitative Features and Quantitative Analysis Using Complex Eigenfunction Expansions
(With CD-ROM)


by P N Shankar (National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India)

Table of Contents (103k)
Foreword (46k)
Preface (384k)
Introduction (343k)
Chapter 1: Physical Aspects of the Motion of a Viscous Fluid (217k)

This unique book provides a unified and systematic account of internal, external and unsteady slow viscous flows, including the latest advances of the last decade, some of which are due to the author. The book shows how the method of eigenfunctions, in conjunction with least squares, can be used to solve problems of low Reynolds number flows, including three-dimensional internal and unsteady flows, which until recently were considered intractable. Although the methods used are quantitative, much stress is laid on understanding the qualitative nature of these intriguing flows. A secondary purpose of the book is to explain how the complex eigenfunction method can be used to solve problems in science and engineering.

Although primarily aimed at graduate students, academics and research engineers in the areas of fluid mechanics and applied mathematics, care has been taken, through the use of numerous diagrams and much discussion, to explain to the non-specialist the qualitative features of these complex flows.


Contents:

  • Physical and Mathematical Background
  • Steady Planar Flows
  • Steady Three-Dimensional Flows
  • Unsteady Flows
  • External Flows
  • Appendices:
  • Shperical Harmonics
  • Mathieu Functions
  • Aerofoil Sections


Readership: Graduate students, academics and research scientists working in the areas of fluid mechanics and applied mathematics; engineers and applied scientists working in technologies involving mixing, convection, materials processing and in geophysics etc.

600pp Pub. date: Oct 2007
ISBN 978-1-86094-780-3
1-86094-780-8
US$109 / £58
ISBN 978-1-86094-781-0(pbk)
1-86094-781-6(pbk)
US$65 / £35
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