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OverviewThe book is an introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, essential for students and researchers in many branches of science. It illustrates its fundamental principles with a variety of examples drawn mainly from astrophysics and geophysics as well as from everyday experience. Prior familiarity with basic thermodynamics and vector calculus is assumed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan BraithwaitePublisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers Imprint: Morgan & Claypool Publishers ISBN: 9781643278612ISBN 10: 1643278614 Pages: 157 Publication Date: 30 January 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Some basic concepts 3. Steady flow of an ideal fluid 4. Viscosity 5. Waves and instabilities 6. Shocks 7. Vorticity and rotating fluids 8. Magnetohydrodynamics: equations and basic concepts 9. MHD: astrophysical contextsReviewsAuthor InformationJonathan Braithwaite obtained his PhD at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Munich in cooperation with the Universiteit van Amsterdam. The stars are theoretically the same everywhere so he was able to follow this up with a stint at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto before moving back to Germany to work at the university in Bonn, where he taught the course on hydrodynamics that led to this book. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |