Introduction to Hydrodynamic Stability

by P.G. Drazin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521009650
• ISBN13: 9780521009652
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"