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100			_aDrazin, P. G. _eAuthor _lEnglish _91934
245		0	_aIntroduction to Hydrodynamic Stability _c/ by P. G. Drazin. _h[Electronic Resource]
260			_aCambridge _b: Cambridge University Press, _c2002
300			_axviii, 258p.
520			_aInstability of flows and their transition to turbulence are widespread phenomena in engineering and the natural environment, and are important in applied mathematics, astrophysics, biology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography and physics as well as engineering. This is a textbook to introduce these phenomena at a level suitable for a graduate course, by modelling them mathematically, and describing numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. The visualization of instabilities is emphasized, with many figures, and in references to more still and moving pictures. The relation of chaos to transition is discussed at length. Many worked examples and exercises for students illustrate the ideas of the text. Readers are assumed to be fluent in linear algebra, advanced calculus, elementary theory of ordinary differential equations, complex variables and the elements of fluid mechanics. The book is aimed at graduate students but will also be very useful for specialists in other fields.
650			_aDynamical Systems _915752
650			_aFluid Dynamics _9858
650			_aHydrodynamic _91936
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511809064 _qPDF _yClick to Access the Online Book
942			_cEBK _nYes
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