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Flow, Deformation and Fracture
Lectures on Fluid Mechanics and the Mechanics of Deformable Solids for Mathematicians and Physicists

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Alexandre J. Chorin
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  • Date Published: June 2014
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521715386

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  • Over forty years of teaching experience are distilled into this text. The guiding principle is the wide use of the concept of intermediate asymptotics, which enables the natural introduction of the modeling of real bodies by continua. Beginning with a detailed explanation of the continuum approximation for the mathematical modeling of the motion and equilibrium of real bodies, the author continues with a general survey of the necessary methods and tools for analyzing models. Next, specific idealized approximations are presented, including ideal incompressible fluids, elastic bodies and Newtonian viscous fluids. The author not only presents general concepts but also devotes chapters to examining significant problems, including turbulence, wave-propagation, defects and cracks, fatigue and fracture. Each of these applications reveals essential information about the particular approximation. The author's tried and tested approach reveals insights that will be valued by every teacher and student of mechanics.

    • Provides clear and detailed exposition from one of the most prominent scientists working in the field
    • Covers all the basics as well as more sophisticated topics like turbulence and fracture
    • Its unique focus on intermediate asymptotics leads to a clearer understanding of the mechanics of continua
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    'The present book is a masterful exposition of fluid and solid mechanics, informed by the ideas of scaling and intermediate asymptotics, a methodology and point of view of which Professor Barenblatt is one of the originators … This is indeed a remarkable book.' Alexandre J. Chorin, from the Foreword

    'This book achieves clarity of exposition on fringe but important topics that no other book on the market achieves … the legendary author Barenblatt and his groundbreaking lifework are spectacularly immortalized in Flow, Deformation and Fracture.' Colin R. Meyer, Pure and Applied Geophysics

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    • Date Published: June 2014
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521715386
    • length: 273 pages
    • dimensions: 247 x 174 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.57kg
    • contains: 110 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Foreword Alexandre J. Chorin
    Preface
    Introduction
    1. Idealized continuous media: the basic concepts
    2. Dimensional analysis and physical similitude
    3. The ideal incompressible fluid approximation: general concepts and relations
    4. The ideal incompressible fluid approximation: analysis and applications
    5. The approximation of a linear elastic solid. Basic equations and boundary value problems of linear theory of elasticity
    6. Approximation of a linear elastic body. Applications: brittle and quasi-brittle fracture, strength of structures
    7. The approximation of Newtonian viscous fluids: general comments and basic relations
    8. Approximation of a Newtonian viscous fluid: the boundary layer
    9. Advanced similarity methods: complete and incomplete similarity
    10. The ideal gas approximation. Sound waves. Shock waves
    11. Turbulence: generalities. Scaling laws for shear flows
    12. Turbulence: mathematical models of turbulent shear flows and of the local structure of turbulent flows at very large Reynolds numbers
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, University of California, Berkeley
    G. I. Barenblatt is Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Principal Scientist in the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

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    Alexandre J. Chorin

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