Vorticity and Vortex Dynamics

✍ Scribed by Professor Jie-Zhi Wu, Professor Hui-Yang Ma, Professor Ming-De Zhou (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 782
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive and intensive monograph for scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians, as well as graduate students in fluid dynamics. It starts with a brief review of fundamentals of fluid dynamics, with an innovative emphasis on the intrinsic orthogonal decomposition of fluid dynamic process, by which one naturally identifies the content and scope of vorticity and vortex dynamics. This is followed by a detailed presentation of vorticity dynamics as the basis of later development. In vortex dynamics part the book deals with the formation, motion, interaction, stability, and breakdown of various vortices. Typical vortex structures are analyzed in laminar, transitional, and turbulent flows, including stratified and rotational fluids. Physical understanding of vertical flow phenomena and mechanisms is the first priority throughout the book. To make the book self-contained, some mathematical background is briefly presented in the main text, but major prerequisites are systematically given in appendices. Material usually not seen in books on vortex dynamics is included, such as geophysical vortex dynamics, aerodynamic vortical flow diagnostics and management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Fundamental Processes in Fluid Motion....Pages 13-65
Vorticity Kinematics....Pages 67-129
Fundamentals of Vorticity Dynamics....Pages 131-200
Vorticity Dynamics in Flow Separation....Pages 201-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Typical Vortex Solutions....Pages 255-321
Separated Vortex Flows....Pages 323-382
Core Structure, Vortex Filament, and Vortex System....Pages 383-447
Front Matter....Pages 449-449
Vortical-Flow Stability and Vortex Breakdown....Pages 451-518
Vortical Structures in Transitional and Turbulent Shear Flows....Pages 519-584
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
Vortical Aerodynamic Force and Moment....Pages 587-640
Vorticity and Vortices in Geophysical Flows....Pages 641-691
Erratum....Pages 777-780
Back Matter....Pages 693-776

✦ Subjects

Engineering Fluid Dynamics;Fluid- and Aerodynamics;Computational Intelligence

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