Oceanic and Atmospheric Fluid Dynamics / by Stefano Pierini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierini, Stefano.

Series:

UNITEXT for Physics, 2198-7890

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soft condensed matter.

Oceanography.

Climatology.

Fluids.

Ocean Sciences.

Climate Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Fluids.

Ocean Sciences.

Climate Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This introductory text, based on the author's long-standing teaching experience, aims to provide a basic preparation of fluid dynamics, with particular attention to the dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere, which require consideration of the Coriolis force. The most salient features of this text are its simplicity and compactness. As for simplicity, much attention has been paid to the connections between the various topics, not skimping on simple and intuitive explanations, so that the reader can easily acquire a unitary vision of the subject. As for its compactness, this is evident in the limited, yet sufficiently broad, range of topics analyzed, considered fundamental. This text is, therefore, particularly suitable for a wide audience of upper undergraduate students, but it also constitutes a valuable resource for master's and doctoral students, as well as to researchers who carry out their scientific activity in the broad context of meteorology, oceanography, and climatology.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

PART I: Fluid Dynamics in Inertial Reference Frames

Chapter 2 Forces in fluid dynamics

Chapter 3 Fundamentals of fluid statics

Chapter 4 Fundamentals of fluid kinematics

Chapter 5 The equations of fluid dynamics

Chapter 6 Turbulence and eddy viscosity

Chapter 7 Flow at low Reynolds number

Chapter 8 Flow at large Reynolds number

Chapter 9 Fundamentals of surface gravity waves

Chapter 10 Energy and statistics of surface gravity waves

Chapter 11 Fundamentals ofinternal gravity waves

PART II: Fluid Dynamics in Rotating Reference Frames

Chapter 12 Coriolis force, geostrophic motion

Chapter 13 Characteristics of rotating fluids

Chapter 14 The thermal wind

Chapter 15 Ageostrophic winds in the atmospheric boundary layers

Chapter 16 Ageostrophic currents in the oceanic boundary layers

Chapter 17 The shallow water approximation

Chapter 18 Potential vorticity and applications

Chapter 19 Quasigeostrophic approximation, Rossby waves

Chapter 20 Oceanic and atmospheric vortices, general circulation

Appendix 1 Gauss-Green and Stokes theorems

Appendix 2 Representation of surface forces by means of the stress tensor

Appendix 3 Relative motion near a point

Appendix 4 Kelvin’s circulation theorem

Bibliography.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783031779916

3031779916

OCLC:

1507696996