Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics – serie
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Principles of Earthquake Source Mechanics
Av B. V. Kostrov, Shamita Das m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
634 kr
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Kostrov and Das present a general theoretical model summarizing our current knowledge of fracture mechanics as applied to earthquakes and earthquake source processes. Part I explains continuum and fracture mechanics, providing the reader with some background and context. Part II continues with a …
Finite Plastic Deformation of Crystalline Solids
Av K. S. Havner
Häftad, 2008
667 kr
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This book reviews and interrelates a large number of theoretical and experimental contributions to the research on finite plastic deformation of single crystals and polycrystalline metals. An overall theoretical framework for investigation of large strains in crystalline materials is presented that …
Acoustics of Fluid-Structure Interactions
Av M. S. Howe
Häftad, 2008
993 kr
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Acoustics of Fluid-Structure Interactions addresses an increasingly important branch of fluid mechanics - the absorption of noise and vibration by fluid flow. This subject, which offers numerous challenges to conventional areas of acoustics, is of growing concern in places where the environment is …
Inverse Methods in Physical Oceanography
Häftad, 2008
976 kr
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Observations of ocean circulation have increased as a result of international field programmes and of remote sensing systems on artificial earth satellites. Oceanographers are increasingly turning to inverse methods for combining these observations with numerical models of ocean circulation. …
The Fluid Mechanics of Large Blood Vessels
Av T. J. Pedley
Häftad, 2008
908 kr
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The analysis of the circulation of the blood is one of the most important areas of fluid mechanics research, with far-reaching medical and physiological implications.
An Introduction to Fourier Analysis and Generalised Functions
Av M. J. Lighthill, G. K. Batchelor
Häftad, 1958
461 kr
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This monograph on generalised functions, Fourier integrals and Fourier series is intended for readers who, while accepting that a theory where each point is proved is better than one based on conjecture, nevertheless seek a treatment as elementary and free from complications as possible. Little …
Theory of Laminar Flames
Av J. D. Buckmaster, G. S. S. Ludford
Häftad, 2008
878 kr
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This monograph deals with the structure, generation and stability of flames from a mathematical point of view. It uses a specific mathematical approach to provide a unified theoretical description of fundamental flame phenomena. Its importance stems from the fact that it provides the first clear …
The Rotation of the Earth
A Geophysical Discussion
Av Walter H. Munk, Gordon J. F. MacDonald
Häftad, 2009
1009 kr
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This book gives an account of certain observed irregularities on the rotation of the Earth, both in its rate of rotation (giving a variable length of day) and in the position of its axis. These irregularities are caused by events on and within the Earth and provide a means of studying a number of …
Plasticity
A Treatise on Finite Deformation of Heterogeneous Inelastic Materials
Häftad, 2009
1302 kr
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Providing a basic foundation for advanced graduate study and research in the mechanics of solids, this 2004 treatise contains a systematic development of the fundamentals of finite inelastic deformations of heterogeneous materials. The book combines the mathematical rigour of solid mechanics with …
Ocean Acoustic Tomography
Av Walter Munk, Peter Worcester m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
1163 kr
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The problem of ocean acoustic tomography is to infer from precise measurements of travel time, or other properties of acoustic propagation, the state of the ocean traversed by a sound field. Tomography takes advantage of two facts: that travel time and other measurable acoustic parameters are …
Sound Transmission through a Fluctuating Ocean
Av Roger Dashen, Walter H. Munk m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
667 kr
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The ocean is transparent to sound where slight irregularities within the ocean cause sound fluctuations, and thus set limits on the many uses of sound in the ocean, similar to the limits imposed by the atmosphere on ground-based telescopes. This 1979 book attempts to connect the known structure of …
Magnetoconvection
Av N. O. Weiss, M. R. E. Proctor
Inbunden, 2014
2312 kr
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The last thirty years have seen great leaps forward in the subject of magnetoconvection. Computational techniques can now explain exotic nonlinear behaviour, transition to chaos and the formation of structures that can be observed on the surface of the Sun. Here, two leading experts present the …
Buoyancy Effects in Fluids
Av J. S. Turner
Häftad, 1979
1069 kr
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The phenomena treated in this book all depend on the action of gravity on small density differences in a non-rotating fluid. The author gives a connected account of the various motions which can be driven or influenced by buoyancy forces in a stratified fluid, including internal waves, turbulent …
The Structure of Turbulent Shear Flow
Häftad, 1980
1432 kr
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Turbulent flow is a most important branch of fluid dynamics yet its complexity has tended to make it one of the least understood. Empirical data have been appearing rapidly for more than twenty years but a consistent theory of turbulent flow based on the results has been lacking. The original …
Principles of Earthquake Source Mechanics
Inbunden, 1989
1987 kr
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Kostrov and Das present a general theoretical model summarizing our current knowledge of fracture mechanics as applied to earthquakes and earthquake source processes. Part I explains continuum and fracture mechanics, providing the reader with some background and context. Part II continues with a …
The Excitation and Propagation of Elastic Waves
Av J. A. Hudson, C. G. Batchelor
Häftad, 1984
667 kr
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This paperback edition of Dr Hudson's advanced textbook presents the theory of small disturbances propagating through solids. The material is set out carefully in mathematical detail. The linearised theory of elasticity has now been replaced by a more fundamental approach based on a generalised …
Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows
Häftad, 1988
993 kr
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Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows is a coherent, up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and experiment on wave-interaction phenomena, both in fluids at rest and in shear flows. On the one hand, this includes water waves, internal waves, their evolution and interaction and associated …
Inverse Methods in Physical Oceanography
Av Andrew F. Bennett, C. G. Batchelor m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
2247 kr
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Observations of ocean circulation have increased as a result of international field programmes and of remote sensing systems on artificial earth satellites. Oceanographers are increasingly turning to inverse methods for combining these observations with numerical models of ocean circulation. …
Finite Plastic Deformation of Crystalline Solids
Av K. S. Havner, C. G. Batchelor m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1970 kr
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This book reviews and interrelates a large number of theoretical and experimental contributions to the research on finite plastic deformation of single crystals and polycrystalline metals. An overall theoretical framework for investigation of large strains in crystalline materials is presented that …
Bénard Cells and Taylor Vortices
Av E. L. Koschmieder, G. K. Batchelor m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
2312 kr
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This book describes the research done on the problems of Bénard convection, as well as its modern offspring the Rayleigh-Bénard problem, and Taylor vortices. Bénard convection differs from Rayleigh-Bénard convection by the presence of surface tension, whilst Bénard convection is characterized by …
Colloidal Dispersions
Av W. B. Russel, D. A. Saville m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
1693 kr
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This book covers the physical side of colloidal science from the individual forces acting between particles smaller than a micrometer that are suspended in a liquid, through the resulting equilibrium and dynamic properties. A variety of internal forces both attractive and repulsive act in …
Vortex Dynamics
Häftad, 1995
771 kr
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The discovery of coherent structures in turbulence has fostered the hope that the study of vortices will lead to models and an understanding of turbulent flow, thereby solving or at least making less mysterious one of the great unsolved problems of classical physics. Vortex dynamics is a natural …
Dynamic Fracture Mechanics
Av L. B. Freund, G. K. Batchelor m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
732 kr
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This volume emphasizes fundamental concepts, both on the development of mathematical models of fracture phenomena and on the analysis of these models. Cases involving stress waves impinging on cracks, tractions suddenly applied to the faces of cracks, and rapid crack growth and arrest are …
The Physics and Mathematics of Adiabatic Shear Bands
Av T. W. Wright, G. K. Batchelor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1987 kr
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This book is a research monograph on the material instability known as adiabatic shear banding which often occurs in a plastically deforming material as it undergoes rapid shearing. Plastic deformation generates heat, which eventually softens most materials with continued straining, a process which …
Acoustics of Fluid-Structure Interactions
Inbunden, 1998
2834 kr
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Acoustics of Fluid-Structure Interactions addresses an increasingly important branch of fluid mechanics - the absorption of noise and vibration by fluid flow. This subject, which offers numerous challenges to conventional areas of acoustics, is of growing concern in places where the environment is …
Theory of Solidification
Inbunden, 2001
2312 kr
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The processes of freezing and melting were present at the beginnings of the Earth and continue to dominate the natural and industrial worlds. The solidification of a liquid or the melting of a solid involves a complex interplay of many physical effects. This 2001 book presents in a systematic way …
Turbulent Combustion
Inbunden, 2000
2198 kr
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The combustion of fossil fuels remains a key technology for the foreseeable future. It is therefore important that we understand the mechanisms of combustion and, in particular, the role of turbulence within this process. Combustion always takes place within a turbulent flow field for two reasons: …
The Earth's Variable Rotation
Geophysical Causes and Consequences
Av Kurt Lambeck, C. G. Batchelor m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1302 kr
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Astronomers have long noted that the Earth does not rotate uniformly about an axis fixed in the planet, that both the length-of-day and the direction of the rotation axis vary periodically and irregularly by small amounts. These variations are an immediate consequence of the Earth not being a rigid …
The Dynamics of Fluidized Particles
Av Roy Jackson
Inbunden, 2000
2263 kr
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Recent years have seen major progress in the development of equations to describe the motion of fluid-particle mixtures and their application to a limited range of problems. With rapid advances in numerical methods and computing power we are now presented with new opportunities to use direct …
Gravity-Capillary Free-Surface Flows
Inbunden, 2010
1987 kr
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Free surface problems occur in many aspects of science and of everyday life such as the waves on a beach, bubbles rising in a glass of champagne, melting ice, pouring flows from a container and sails billowing in the wind. Consequently, the effect of surface tension on gravity-capillary flows …
