Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Mechanics


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Reviews and research articles summarizing a wide range of active research topics in fluid mechanics.




Instabilities of Flows: With and Without Heat Transfer and Chemical Reaction


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The articles in the book treat flow instability and transition starting with classical material dealt with in an innovative and rigorous way, some newer physical mechanisms explained for the first time and finally with the very complex topic of bombustion and two-phase flow instabilities.










Transition to Turbulence


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A Numerical Study of Unsteady Laminar Boundary Layer Separation


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The unsteady, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations were solved using a fractional timestep method. Using this technique, the separation of a laminar boundary layer under the influence of an external adverse pressure gradient was.




DNS of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows


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This book highlights by careful documentation of developments what led to tracking the growth of deterministic disturbances inside the shear layer from receptivity to fully developed turbulent flow stages. Associated theoretical and numerical developments are addressed from basic level so that an uninitiated reader can also follow the materials which lead to the solution of a long-standing problem. Solving Navier-Stokes equation by direct numerical simulation (DNS) from the first principle has been considered as one of the most challenging problems of understanding what causes transition to turbulence. Therefore, this book is a very useful addition to advanced CFD and advanced fluid mechanics courses.




Proceedings "WASCOM 2007", 14th Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media


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This volume is the fifth in a series of proceedings which started in 1999. The contributions include the latest results on the theory of wave propagation, extended thermodynamics, and the stability of the solutions to partial differential equations.