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Instability of flows and their transition to turbulence are widespread phenomena in engineering and the natural environment, and are important in applied mathematics, astrophysics, biology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography and physics as well as engineering. This is a textbook to introduce these phenomena at a level suitable for a graduate course, by modelling them mathematically, and describing numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. The visualization of instabilities is emphasized, with many figures, and in references to more still and moving pictures. The relation of chaos to transition is discussed at length. Many worked examples and exercises for students illustrate the ideas of the text. Readers are assumed to be fluent in linear algebra, advanced calculus, elementary theory of ordinary differential equations, complex variables and the elements of fluid mechanics. The book is aimed at graduate students but will also be very useful for specialists in other fields.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521804271
eBay Product ID (ePID)87193297
Product Key Features
Number of Pages278 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIntroduction to Hydrodynamic Stability
Publication Year2002
SubjectMechanics
TypeTextbook
AuthorP. G. Drazin
SeriesCambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight580 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorP. G. Drazin