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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      December 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511550928
      9780521873376
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511550928
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.34kg, 516 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermal-Fluids Engineering
      Series:
      Cambridge Aerospace Series (21)
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    Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermal-Fluids Engineering
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    Cambridge Aerospace Series (21)
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    This book illustrates how potential flows enter into the general theory of motions of viscous and viscoelastic fluids. Traditionally, the theory of potential flow is presented as a subject called 'potential flow of an inviscid fluid'; when the fluid is incompressible these fluids are, curiously, said to be 'perfect' or 'ideal'. This type of presentation is widespread; it can be found in every book on fluid mechanics, but it is flawed. It is never necessary and typically not useful to put the viscosity of fluids in potential (irrotational) flow to zero. The dimensionless description of potential flows of fluids with a nonzero viscosity depends on the Reynolds number, and the theory of potential flow of an inviscid fluid can be said to rise as the Reynolds number tends to infinity. The theory given here can be described as the theory of potential flows at finite and even small Reynolds numbers.

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    Source: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

    'The book contains some interesting nuggets that I had not been previously aware of. … The authors have developed a nice method for computing viscous boundary layers near a free surface (nicely outlined in chapter 12), which they appear to demonstrate is quite accurate. … These different ideas are critically applied to many of the rich list of problems discussed in the book.'

    Source: Journal of Fluid Mechanics

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