With applications ranging from modelling the environment to automotive design and physiology to astrophysics, conventional textbooks cannot hope to give students much information on what topics in fluid dynamics are currently being researched, or how to choose between them. This book rectifies matters. It consists of eleven chapters that introduce and review different branches of the subject for graduate-level courses, or for specialists seeking introductions to other areas. Hb ISBN (2001): 0-521-78061-6
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Interfacial fluid dynamics Stephen Davis; 2. Viscous fingering as an archetype for growth patterns Yves Couder; 3. Blood flow in arteries and veins Tim Pedley; 4. Open shear flow instabilities Patrick Huerre; 5. Turbulence Javier Jimenez; 6. Convection in the environment Paul Linden; 7. Reflections on magnetohydrodynamics Keith Moffatt; 8. Solidification of fluids Grae Worster; 9. Geological fluid mechanics Herbert Huppert; 10. The dynamic ocean Chris Garrett; 11. On global-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulations Michael McIntyre; Index.
