Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes: Scaling Principles and Asymptotic Analysis (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Chemical Engineering)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01E3ICWCS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 117 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
a bit narrowly focused on too few topics
Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes: Scaling Principles and Asymptotic Analysis presents analytic methods for the solution of fluid mechanics and convective transport processes, all in the laminar flow regime. This book brings together the results of almost 30 years of research on the use of nondimensionalization, scaling principles, and asymptotic analysis into a comprehensive form suitable for presentation in a core graduate-level course on fluid mechanics and the convective transport of heat. Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes is suitable for use as a textbook for graduate courses in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena and also as a reference for researchers in the field.. A considerable amount of material on viscous-dominated flows is covered.A unique feature of this book is its emphasis on scaling principles and the use of asymptotic methods, both as a means of solution and as a basis for qualitative understanding of the correlations that exist between independent and dependent dimensionless parameters in transport processes
An excellent research and reference text. Gary Leal is best known for his work on free surface flows of drops and as such this book shows some of techniques used to solve for such flows although this is in the minority. Overall this book is heavily research oriented with meticulously worked solutions for trasnport processes in fluid dynamics. The book covers asymptotic approximations, creeping flows and some heat transfer as well as some slender body theory. It comprises many, once, research problems in the fluid dynamics field, each of them worked out in detail. It req. "For well-prepared students and researchers" according to A Customer. I've read the book - not the entire content -, it's really a good book. Every line needs deep understanding in physics and math. I want to recommend this book for students and researchers who have deep and strong foundation on math and fluid mechanics. But, I don't think this book is an adequate textbook for just one sememster coursework. It's really difficult!
University of California