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1 online resource (556 pages) |
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Front Cover ; Course of Theoretical Physics; Copyright Page; Tabel of Contents ; PREFACE TO THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION; EVGENIĬ MIKHAĬLOVICH LIFSHITZ (1915-1985); NOTATION; CHAPTER I. IDEAL FLUIDS; 1. The equation of continuity; 2. Euler""s equation; 3. Hydrostatics; 4. The condition that convection be absent; 5. Bernoulli's equation; 6. The energy flux; 7. Tbe momentum flux; 8. The conservation of circulation; 9. Potential flow; 10. Incompressible fluids; 11. The drag force in potential flow past a body; 12. Gravity waves |
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13. Internal waves in an incompressible fluid14. Waves in a rotating fluid; CHAPTER II. VISCOUS FLUIDS; 1.5. The equations of motion of a viscous fluid; 16. Energy dissipation in an incompressible fluid; 17. Flow in a pipe; 18. Flow between rotating cylinders; 19. The law of similarity; 20. Flow with small Reynolds numbers; 21. The laminar wake; 22. The viscosity of suspensions; 23. Exact solutions of the equations of motion for a viscous fluid; 24. Oscillatory motion in a fiscous fluid; 25. Damping of gravity waves; CHAPTER III. TURBULENCE; 26. Stability of steady flow |
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27. Stability of rotary flow28. Stability of flow in a pipe; 29. Instability of tangential discontinuities; 30. Quasi-periodic flow and frequency locking; 31. Str'ange attractors; 32. Transition to turbulence by period doubling; 33. Fully developed turbulence; 34. The velocity correlation functions; 35. The turbulent region and the phenomenon of separation; 36. The turbulent jet; 37. The turbulent wake; 38. Zhukovskiĭs theorem; CHAPTER IV. BOUNDARY LAYERS; 39. The laminar boundary layer; 40. Flow near the line of separation; 41. Stability of flow in the laminar boundary layer |
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42. The logarithmic velocity profile43. Turbulent flow in pipes; 44. The turbulent boundary layer; 45. The drag crisis; 46. Flow past streamlined bodies; 47. Induced drag; 48. The lift of a thin wing; CHAPTER V. THERMAL CONDUCTION IN FLUIDS; 49. The general equation of heat transfer; 50. Thermal conduction in an incompressible fluid; 51. Thermal conduction in an infinite medium; 52. Thermal conduction in a finite medium; 53. The similarity law for heat transfer; 54. Heat transfer in a boundary layer; 55. Heating of a body in a moving fluid; 56. Free convection |
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57. Convective instability of a fluid at restCHAPTER VI. DIFFUSION; 58. The equations of fluid dynamics for a mixture of fluids; 59. Coefficients of mass transfer and thermal diffusion; 60. Diffusion or particles suspended in a fluid; CHAPTER VII. SURFACE PHENOMENA; 61. Laplace's formula; 62. Capillary waves; 63. The effect of adsorbed films on the motion of a liquid; CHAPTER VIII. SOUND; 64. Sound waves; 65. The energy and momentum of sound waves; 66. Reflection and refraction of sound waves; 67. Geometrical acoustics; 68. Propagation of sound in a moving medium |
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69. Characteristic vibrations |
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Print version record |
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Fluid mechanics.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Hydraulics.
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Fluid mechanics
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lifshit︠s︡, E. M. (Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich)
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| ISBN |
9780080570730 |
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0080570739 |
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