Scaling /
In this work, the author describes and teaches the art of discovering scaling laws, starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Cambridge texts in applied mathematics.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Dimensional analysis and physical similarity
- 2. Self-similarity and intermediate asymptotics
- 3. Scaling laws and self-similar solutions that cannot be obtained by dimensional analysis
- 4. Complete and incomplete similarity: Self-similar solutions of the first and second kind
- 5. Scaling and transformation groups: Renormalization group
- 6. Self-similar phenomena and travelling waves
- 7. Scaling laws and fractals
- 8. Scaling laws for turbulent wall-bounded shear flows at very large Reynolds numbers.