Essential fluid dynamics : for scientists / Jonathan Braithwaite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braithwaite, Jonathan, author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 4.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 4]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fluid dynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2017]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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text file

Biography/History:

Jonathan Braithwaite obtained his PhD at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Munich in cooperation with the Universiteit van Amsterdam. The stars are theoretically the same everywhere so he was able to follow this up with a stint at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto before moving back to Germany to work at the university in Bonn, where he taught the course on hydrodynamics that led to this book.

Summary:

The book is 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.

Contents:

1. Introduction

1.1. The fluid approximation

1.2. The hydrodynamic equations

2. Some basic concepts

2.1. Visualisation

2.2. Sound waves

2.3. Compressibility

2.4. Rotation of fluid elements

2.5. Gravitationally stratified fluid

3. Steady flow of an ideal fluid

3.1. Bernoulli's equation

3.2. Subsonic and supersonic flow

3.3. Flow through a nozzle

3.4. Stellar winds and accretion

4. Viscosity

4.1. The viscous stress tensor

4.2. Viscous heating

4.3. Examples of viscous flow

4.4. Similarity and dimensionless parameters

4.5. Regimes of viscous flow : example of flow past a solid body

4.6. Boundary layers

4.7. Heat diffusion

5. Waves and instabilities

5.1. Surface gravity waves

5.2. One fluid on top of another fluid

5.3. Shear instability between two fluids

5.4. Internal gravity waves

5.5. Convection

5.6. Baroclinic instability

5.7. Turbulence

5.8. The Jeans instability

6. Shocks

6.1. Viscous versus pressure gradient force

6.2. The jump conditions

6.3. Contexts

6.4. Hydraulic jumps

7. Vorticity and rotating fluids

7.1. Vortices

7.2. The vorticity equation

7.3. The momentum equation in a rotating frame of reference

7.4. The centrifugal force and the von Zeipel paradox

7.5. The vorticity equation in a rotating frame

7.6. Inertial waves

7.7. The Taylor-Proudman theorem

7.8. The geostrophic approximation

7.9. Rossby waves

8. Magnetohydrodynamics : equations and basic concepts

8.1. The MHD equations

8.2. The MHD approximation

8.3. The magnetic and other fields

8.4. A brief note concerning units

8.5. Field lines, flux conservation and flux freezing

8.6. Magnetic diffusivity

8.7. Magnetic pressure, tension and energy density

8.8. Waves

8.9. Different regimes in MHD

8.10. Magnetic helicity

8.11. MHD equilibria

9. MHD : astrophysical contexts

9.1. The solar corona

9.2. Jets : launching, collimation and instabilities

9.3. Angular momentum transport in discs

Appendix A. Useful information.

Notes:

"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 11, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781681745978

OCLC:

1019445692

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