Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics) - Softcover

Craik, Alex D. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521368294 ISBN 13: 9780521368292

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Synopsis

This up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and experiment on wave-interaction phenomena covers fluids both at rest and in their shear flows. It includes, on the one hand, water waves, internal waves, and their evolution, interaction, and associated wave-driven means flow and, on the other hand, phenomena on nonlinear hydrodynamic stability, especially those leading to the onset of turbulence. This study provide a particularly valuable bridge between these two similar, yet different, classes of phenomena. It will be of value to oceanographers, meteorologists, and those working in fluid mechanics, atmospheric and planetary physics, plasma physics, aeronautics, and geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics.

About this title

Book Description:

An up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and experiment on wave-interaction phenomena covers fluids both at rest and in shear flows. Includes water waves and internal waves, their evolution, interaction and associated wave-driven mean flows.

About the Author:

ADD Craik is a well-respected mathematician and an authority on 19th century mathematics. He has contributed a number of well-regarded articles to journals such as "Historia Mathematicaa and "Notes and Records of the Royal Society of Londona .

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0521368294
• ISBN 13: 9780521368292
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336