Overview
- Review of fluid flows and the work of the late Professor A. Yaglom
- Reviewed, edited, brought together and finished as a tribute to Professor Yaglom's work
- Historical overview of an important phase in the research on fluid flows
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (FMIA, volume 100)
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This book is a complete revision of the part of Monin & Yaglom's famous two-volume work "Statistical Fluid Mechanics: Mechanics of Turbulence" that deals with the theory of laminar-flow instability and transition to turbulence. It includes the considerable advances in the subject that have been made in the last 15 years or so. It is intended as a textbook for advanced graduate courses and as a reference for research students and professional research workers.
The first two Chapters are an introduction to the mathematics, and the experimental results, for the instability of laminar (or inviscid) flows to infinitesimal (in practice "small") disturbances. The third Chapter develops this linear theory in more detail and describes its application to particular problems. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with instability to finite-amplitude disturbances: much of the material has previously been available only in research papers.
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Book Title: Hydrodynamic Instability and Transition to Turbulence
Authors: Akiva M. Yaglom
Editors: Uriel Frisch
Series Title: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4237-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4236-9Published: 17 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9753-6Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4237-6Published: 18 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0926-5112
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 603
Number of Illustrations: 140 b/w illustrations