Handbook of Atomization and Sprays

Nasser Ashgriz

Atomization and sprays are used in a wide range of industries: mechanical, chemical, aerospace, and civil engineering; material science and metallurgy; food; pharmaceutical, forestry, environmental protection; medicine; agriculture; meteorology and others. Some specific...

Rotating Flow

Peter Childs

Rotating flow is critically important across a wide range of scientific, engineering and product applications, providing design and modeling capability for diverse products such as jet engines, pumps and vacuum cleaners, as well as geophysical flows.Developed over the...

Water Waves and Ship Hydrodynamics

A.J. Hermans

In this book an introduction is given to aspects of water waves that play a role in ship hydrodynamics and offshore engineering. At first the equations and linearized boundary conditions are derived describing the non-viscous free surface water waves, with special...

Shock Waves

Zonglin Jiang

The 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW24) was held at the Beijing Friendship Hotel during July 11-16, 2004, in Beijing. It was a great pleasure for the Local Organizing Committee to organize the ISSW in China for the first time, because forty-seven years...

Advances in Turbulence XII

Bruno Eckhardt

Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows

Roland Schiestel

This title provides the fundamental bases for developing turbulence models on rational grounds. The main different methods of approach are considered, ranging from statistical modelling at various degrees of complexity to numerical simulations of turbulence. Each of...

Capillary Forces in Microassembly

Pierre Lambert

Capillary Forces in Microassembly discusses the use of capillary forces as a gripping principle in microscale assembly. Clearly written and well-organized, this text brings together physical concepts at the microscale with practical applications in...

Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena

Gabi Ben-Dor

This book is a comprehensive state-of-the-knowledge summation of shock wave reflection phenomena from a phenomenological point of view. It includes a thorough introduction to oblique shock wave reflections, dealing with both regular and Mach types. It also covers in...

Nonlinear Dynamics of Rotating Shallow Water: Methods and Advances

Vladimir Zeitlin

The rotating shallow water (RSW) model is of wide use as a conceptual tool in geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD), because, in spite of its simplicity, it contains all essential ingredients of atmosphere and ocean dynamics at the synoptic scale, especially in its two- (or...

FLOMANIA - A European Initiative on Flow Physics Modelling

Bertrand Aupoix , Ulf Bunge , Werner Haase , Dieter Schwamborn

This volume contains results gained from the EU-funded 5th Framework project, FLOMANIA (Flow Physics Modelling – An Integrated Approach). 17 European organisations, industry, research, and universities, have collaborated on topics of improvement of existing methods,...

Computational Fluid Dynamics 2004

Clinton Groth , David W. Zingg

Those interested in state of the art in computational fluid dynamics will find this publication a valuable source of reference. The contributions are drawn from The International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD) held in 2004. The conference is staged...

Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Fluids and Fluid Mixtures

Jan V. Sengers , Jose M. Ortiz De Zarate

This book deals with density, temperature, velocity and concentration fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures. The book first reviews thermal fluctuations in equilibrium fluids on the basis of fluctuating hydrodynamics. It then shows how the method of fluctuating...

Mathematical Geophysics

Jean-Yves Chemin , Benoit Desjardins , Isabelle Gallagher , Emmanuel Grenier

Aimed at graduate students, researchers and academics in mathematics, engineering, oceanography, meteorology and mechanics, this text provides a detailed introduction to the physical theory of rotating fluids, a significant part of geophysical fluid dynamics. The text...

Unsaturated Soils: Experimental Studies

Tom Schanz

These proceedings document the various papers delivered and partially presented at the International Conference “From experimental evidence towards numerical modeling of unsaturated soils,” which was held in Weimar (Germany) during 18-19 September 2003. The conference...

Sixth IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition

Rama Govindarajan

The dynamics of transition from laminar to turbulent flow remains to this day a major challenge in theoretical and applied mechanics. A series of IUTAM symposia held over the last twenty five years at well-known Centres of research in the subject - Novosibirsk,...

Multidisciplinary Methods for Analysis, Optimization and Control of Complex Systems

Vincenzo Capasso , Jacques Periaux

Unsaturated Soils: Numerical and Theoretical Approaches

Tom Schanz

These proceedings document the various papers delivered and partially presented at the International Conference “From experimental evidence towards numerical modeling of unsaturated soils,” which was held in Weimar (Germany) during 18-19 September 2003. The conference...

Analysis and Numerics for Conservation Laws

Gerald Warnecke

Whatdoasupernovaexplosioninouterspace,?owaroundanairfoil and knocking in combustion engines have in common? The physical and chemical mechanisms as well as the sizes of these processes are quite di?erent. So are the motivations for studying them scienti?cally. The...

Screw Compressors

Ahmed Kovacevic , Nikola Stosic , Ian Smith , Nikola Stosic

Althoughtheprinciplesofoperationofhelicalscrewmachines,ascompressors or expanders, have been well known for more than 100 years, it is only during the past 30 years that these machines have become widely used. The main reasons for the long period before they were...

Fluid Mechanics of Flow Metering

Collectif

Flow meters measure the volumetric flow rate in a pipeline. Most meters are based on deriving a signal from the fluid flow and calibrating the signal against the volumetric flow rate. The calibration is done in fully-developed flow, and the same state of flow must exist...