Research Frontiers in Fluid Dynamics - ed by R. Seeger

Description: Research Frontiers in Fluid Dynamics edited by Raymond J. Seeger and G. Temple Interscience Publishers, Wiley, 1965, Hardcover without Dust Jacket, Good condition, ex-library (Polaroid Corporation), no underlining, no highlighting, 738 pages. Monographs and Texts in Physics and Astronomy - Volume XV This book is intended to give a graduate student a panoramic view of some of the exciting research vistas in fluid dynamics. It presupposes acquaintance with an elementary account * of the fundamental principles of fluid dynamics, including their physical significance, as well as mathematical and experimental techniques. Often in such introductory courses, however, a student is presented with a comprehensive theory which gives the impression that fluid dynamics is a fait accompli. When he does awaken to the field as a vital and growing one, he is usually confronted with the necessity of immediately making a choice of one particular aspect of it for further pursuit. Thus, the engineer will concentrate upon some phase of aerodynamics or hydraulics, of heat transfer, or mass transfer; the earth scientist, upon dynamical meteorology or oceanography; the mathematician, upon analytical techniques or high-speed computations; etc. What is definitely lacking, in general, is an appreciation of the increasing interdisciplinary character of all phases of modern fluid dynamics—not to mention the experimental difficulties that are inevitably encountered and accordingly limit the applicability of any theory. Regardless of a student's ultimate specialization, he might well profit from a telescopic sweep of the entire field before penetrating deeper in any particular direction. Above all, the student of today needs to consider modern fluids, i.e., real fluids, not merely the idealized concepts of yesteryear's hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and aerodynamics. The quest to understand real fluids is a challenge of modern physics; its adventuresome path leads through exciting research frontiers,** namely, fluids under unusual physical conditions and fluids participating in large-scale phenomena—not to mention the perplexing unsolved problems of everyday fluids. In general, one can approach fluids from various viewpoints: from the standpoint of rational mechanics as contrasted with that of molecular physics, from the standpoint of continuum analysis as compared with that of numerical analysis, from the standpoint of theoretical engineering as supplementing empirical data, etc. Ordinary fluids, for example, exhibit anomalous viscosity and second-order effects. We regret that unforeseen circumstances have prevented the inclusion of a section on that Proteus of mathematical physics, turbulence. This field, fortunately, is quite well covered in the literature. Phenomena involving free surfaces, on the contrary, are less familiar and equally challenging. Even a casual review of such problems will soon convince the alert student that a comprehensive theory for dealing with ordinary fluids is still wanting. Much progress is being made nowadays in studying the behavior of fluids under unusual physical conditions. High-speed phenomena are especially interesting with their mixed transonic flows and with supersonic shockwaves. Physical scientists are particularly concerned about mathematically unmanageable phenomena, both at low pressures and at high densities—above all, with the new world of physics at low temperatures and with the new world of chemistry at high temperatures. Theoretically significant are the so-called quantum fluids, which are not confined to microcosmic limits, but rather are typical of ordinary conditions. Nowadays space satellites have revived our interest in planetary atmospheres and renewed our hope of understanding our earth's own atmosphere and oceans with their meteorological interactions. Our attention is drawn more and more to the wonderful sky beyond, to astrophysical phenomena and to interplanetary phenomena. Here the large distances involved permit the small terrestrial effects of magnetohydrodynamics to be cumulatively integrated into magnified observations. We are greatly indebted to each of the contributors who has sincerely labored to present his subject from the viewpoint of a research investigator in a manner that will appeal to the inquiring mind of youth. Many of the comprehensive bibliographies will undoubtedly be a foundation not only for this survey, but also for further development of the subjects. RAYMOND J. SEEGER March, 1965 G. TEMPLE * G. Temple, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Oxford University Press, 1958, and R. J. Seeger, "Fluid Mechanics," Chapter 2 in Handbook of Physics, edited by E. U. Corder and H. Odeshaw, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1958. ** Raymond J. Seeger, "On the Physics of Fluids," Am. J. Phys., 27, 377 (1959). CONTENTS 1 Engineering Aspects, by W. R. Hawthorne 2 Mathematical Aspects, by M. H. Rogers, P. G. Drazin, D. W. Moore, and J. B. L. Powell 3 Numerical Analysis, by Harry Polachek 4 Molecular Theory of Fluids, by H. S. Green 5 Viscoelastic Fluids, by R. S. Rivlin 6 Anomalous Viscosity, by M. Reiner 7 Second-Order Effects, by M. Reiner 8 Shockwave Phenomena, by D. C. Pack 9 Transonic Flow, by K. G. Guderley 10 Asymptotic Solutions in Hypersonic Flow: An Approach to Second- Order Solutions of Hypersonic Small-Disturbance Theory, by N. C Freeman 11 Magnetofluid Dynamics, by C. K. Chu and Harold Grad 12 Application of the Boltzmann Equation to Low-Density Flows, by G. N. Patterson 13 Low-Temperature Phenomena, by D. ter Haar 14 High-Temperature Phenomena, by J. D. Teare 15 High-Density Phenomena, by John S. Dahler 16 Meteorology, by 0. G. Sutton 17 Oceanography, by A. R. Robinson 18 Free-Surface Flows, by John V. Wehausen 19 Astrophysical Phenomena, by Lawrence H. Aller 20 Fluid-Dynamical Problems Associated with Interplanetary Space, by E. N. Parker Author Index Subject Index Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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