Buch, Englisch, 157 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
Reihe: IOP Concise Physics
Buch, Englisch, 157 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
Reihe: IOP Concise Physics
ISBN: 978-1-64327-861-2
Verlag: Morgan & Claypool Publishers LLC-Iop
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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Some basic concepts
- 3. Steady flow of an ideal fluid
- 4. Viscosity
- 5. Waves and instabilities
- 6. Shocks
- 7. Vorticity and rotating fluids
- 8. Magnetohydrodynamics: equations and basic concepts
- 9. MHD: astrophysical contexts