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Hydrodynamic instability / cosponsored by The Office of Ordnance Research.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
American Mathematical Society. Short Course, organizer of meeting.
United States. Office of Ordnance Research, sponsor.
Series:
Symposia in Applied Mathematics. Proceedings, v. 13.
Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, 0160-7634 ; Volume XIII
Proceedings of symposia in applied mathematics ; Volume XIII.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fluid dynamics--Congresses.
Fluid dynamics.
Stability--Congresses.
Stability.
Turbulence--Congresses.
Turbulence.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 p.)
Place of Publication:
Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, 1962.
Language Note:
English
Contents:
""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""On the instability of shear flows""; ""Hydrodynamic stability and the initial value problem""; ""Stability theory in plasma physics""; ""Experimental determination of stability limits""; ""Helmholtz and Taylor instability""; ""Slip line instability""; ""Generation of surface waves by shear flows""; ""Resonance phenomena in gravity waves""; ""The statistical geometry of random surfaces""; ""On the oscillations of ships in confused seas""; ""Remarks on the functional-analytic approach to turbulence""; ""Statistical mechanics of continuous media""
""The closure problem of turbulence theory""""Wave propagation in random media""; ""Stability of many-body computations""; ""Control in linear systems""; ""On the foundations of a theory of stochastic variational processes""; ""Control of randomly varying linear dynamical systems""; ""Asymptotic stability criteria""; ""Flow between rotating cylinders in hydrodynamics and hydromagnetics""; ""AUTHOR INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""SUBJECT INDEX""
""A""""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-8218-9228-2

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