Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt

Scaling

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An advanced 2003 textbook on how to discover and use scaling laws in natural sciences and engineering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780521826570
• ISBN-10: 0521826578
• Artikelnr.: 29338682

Autorenporträt

G. I. Barenblatt is Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Principal Scientist in the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
1. Dimensional analysis and physical similarity
2. Self-similarity and intermediate asymptotics
3. Scaling laws and self-similar solutions which cannot be obtained by dimensional analysis
4. Complete and incomplete similarity
5. Scaling and transformation groups and the renormalisation group
6. Self-similar solutions and traveling waves
7. Scaling laws and fractals
8. Scaling laws for turbulent wall-bounded shear flows at very large Reynolds numbers
References
Index.