Hydrodynamic Instabilities And The Transition To Turbulence
by Akiva M.Yaglom /
2013 / English / PDF
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This book contains publications of Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) Stanford University: the mathematics, experimental results, for the instability of laminar (or inviscid) flows to infinitesimal disturbances and its applications.
Contents
Foreword
1 The Equations of Fluid Dynamics and Some of Their Consequences
2 Basic Experimental Facts and Introduction to Linear Stability Theory
3 More About Linear Stability Theory: Studies of the Initial-Value Problem
4 Stability to Finite Disturbances: Energy Method and Landau's Equation
5 FurtherWeakly-Nonlinear Approaches to Laminar-Flow Stability: Blasius Boundary-Layer Flow as a Paradigm
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