J. Eggers

Singularities: Formation, Structure, and Propagation (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many key phenomena in physics and engineering are described as singularities in the solutions to the differential equations describing them. Examples covered thoroughly in this book include the formation of drops and bubbles, the propagation of a crack and the formation of a shock in a gas. Aimed at a broad audience, this book provides the mathematical tools for understanding singularities and explains the many common features in their mathematical structure. Part I introduces the main concepts and techniques, using the most elementary mathematics possible so that it can be followed by readers with only a general background in differential equations. Parts II and III require more specialised methods of partial differential equations, complex analysis and asymptotic techniques. The book may be used for advanced fluid mechanics courses and as a complement to a general course on applied partial differential equations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316349397
• Artikelnr.: 52833257

Autorenporträt

J. Eggers is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol. His career has been devoted to the understanding of self-similar phenomena, and he has more than fifteen years of experience in teaching non-linear and scaling phenomena to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Eggers has made fundamental contributions to our mathematical understanding of free-surface flows, in particular the break-up and coalescence of drops. His work was instrumental in establishing the study of singularities as a research field in applied mathematics and in fluid mechanics. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Erfurt, Germany, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and has recently been made a Euromech Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. What are singularities all about?
2. Blow-up
3. Similarity profile
4. Continuum equations
5. Local singular expansions
6. Asymptotic expansions of PDEs
Part II. Formation of Singularities: 7. Drop break-up
8. A numerical example: drop pinch-off
9. Slow convergence
10. Continuation
Part III. Persistent Singularities - Propagation: 11. Shock waves
12. The dynamical system
13. Vortices
14. Cusps and caustics
15. Contact lines and cracks
Appendix A. Vector calculus
Appendix B. Index notation and the summation convention
Appendix C. Dimensional analysis
References
Index.