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VORTEX DYNAMICS
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| By: |
P. G. Saffman, Mark J. Ablowitz, S. H. Davis |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521477395 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521477390 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 February, 1995 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
Vortex dynamics is a natural paradigm for the field of chaotic motion and modern dynamical system theory. |
| Synopsis: |
The discovery of coherent structures in turbulence has fostered the hope that the study of vortices will lead to models and an understanding of turbulent flow, thereby solving or at least making less mysterious one of the great unsolved problems of classical physics. Vortex dynamics is a natural paradigm for the field of chaotic motion and modern dynamical system theory. The emphasis in this monograph is on the classical theory of inviscid incompressible fluids containing finite regions of vorticity. The effects of viscosity, compressibility, inhomogeneity and stratification are enormously important in many fields of application, from hypersonic flight to global environmental fluid mechanics. However, this volume focuses on those aspects of fluid motion which are primarily controlled by the vorticity and are such that the effects of the other fluid properties are secondary. |
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54 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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