Fluid mechanics and the environment : dynamical approaches : a collection of research papers written in commemoration of the 60th birthday of Sidney Leibovich /

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Leibovich, Sidney, 1939-, Lumley, John L. (John Leask), 1930-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2001]
Series:Lecture notes in physics ; 566.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Point vortex models and the dynamics of strong vortics in the atmosphere and oceans / H. Aref and M.A. Stremler
  • Bubble disconnection: self-similarity and cascading physics / O.N. Boratav, Y.-J. Chen, and P. Steen
  • Implicit multigrid computation of unsteady flows with applications to aeroelasticity / D.A. Caughey
  • Second-harmonic resonance with parametric excitation and damping / A.D.D. Craik, H. Okamoto, and H.R. Allen
  • Bubble and temperature fields in langmuir circulation / D. Farmer, S. Vagle, and M. Li
  • Computing periodic orbits / J. Guckenheimer
  • Dynamics of layers in geophysical flows / J.C.R. Hunt and M. Galmiche
  • Radiative transport in anisotropic media / A. Kribus, C. Zhang, and R. Ben-Zvi
  • Vortex-wake pollution: a problem in fluid mechanics / S.K. Lele
  • Turbulent bursts in couette-taylor flow / P.S. Marcus
  • Surface-wave effects on winds and currents in marine boundary layers / J.C. McWilliams and P.P. Sullivan
  • Synchronised behaviour in three coupled faraday disk homopolar dynamos / I.M. Moroz
  • large-eddy simulation using projection onto local basis functions / S.B. Pope
  • Low-dimensional dynamical model of a turbulent boundary layer over a compliant surface: preliminary results / D. Rempfer [and others]
  • Observations and theories of langmuir circulation: a story of mixing / J.A. Smith
  • Low-dimensional models with varying parameters: a model problem and flow through a diffuser with variable angle / T. Smith and P. Holmes
  • Surfactant scavenging by microbubble clouds: consequences for capillary wave damping / A.J. Szeri, R.L. Stefan, and J.R. Saylor
  • Spectral domain decomposition method and its application to the simulation of shear-strafified turbulence / K.L. Tse [and others]
  • Wing wake vortices and temporal vortex pair instabilities / C.H.K. Williamson, T. Leweke, G.D. Miller
  • laboratory measurements of the generation of langmuir circulations and surface waves / F. Veron and W.K. Melville.