Modern Developments in Gas Dynamics: Based upon a course on Modern Developments in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, given at the University of California at Los Angeles

✍ Scribed by W. H. T. Loh (auth.), W. H. T. Loh (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the last decade, the rapid growth of knowledge in the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer has resulted in many significant ad­ vances of interest to students, engineers, and scientists. Accordingly, a course entitled "Modern Developments in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer" was given at the University of California to present significant recent theoretical and experimental work. The course consisted of seven parts: I-Introduction; II-Hydraulic Analogy for Gas Dynamics; 111- Turbulence and Unsteady Gas Dynamics; IV-Rarefied and Radiation Gas Dynamics; V-Biological Fluid Mechanics; VI-Hypersonic and Plasma Gas Dynamics; and VII-Heat Transfer in Hypersonic Flows. The material, presented by the undersigned as course instructor and by various guest lecturers, could easily be adapted by other universities for use as a text for a one-semester senior or graduate course on the subject. Due to the extensive notes developed during the University of California course, it was decided to publish the material in three volumes, of which the present is the first. The succeeding volumes will be entitled "Selected Topics in Fluid and Bio-Fluid Mechanics" and "Introduction to Steady and Unsteady Gas Dynamics." Finally, I must express a word of appreciation to my wife Irene and to my children, Wellington Jr. and Victoria, who made it possible for me to write and edit this book in the very quiet atmosphere of our home.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Theory of the Hydraulic Analogy for Steady and Unsteady Gas Dynamics....Pages 1-61
Combined Heat and Mass Transfer Processes....Pages 63-82
Hypersonic Viscous Flows....Pages 83-129
Hypersonic Gas Dynamics of Slender Bodies....Pages 131-182
Hypersonic Blunt-Body Gas Dynamics....Pages 183-234
Rarefied Gas Dynamics....Pages 235-254
Fundamentals of Radiation Gas Dynamics....Pages 255-310
Some Problems of Radiative Transfer....Pages 311-331
Plasma Dynamics....Pages 333-378
Back Matter....Pages 379-386

✦ Subjects

Mechanical Engineering