Counterflows: Paradoxical Fluid Mechanics Phenomena
| AUTHOR | Shtern, Vladimir |
| PUBLISHER | Cambridge University Press (10/15/2012) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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Counterflows play important roles in nature and technology. A natural example is the Gulf Stream and the opposite flow in the ocean depths. Technological applications include hydrocyclones, vortex tubes, and vortex combustors. These elongated counterflows are wildly turbulent but survive intense mixing, a seeming paradox. Local counterflows, whose spatial extent is small compared with that of surrounding flows, occur behind bluff bodies and in swirling streams. The latter are often referred to as vortex breakdown bubbles, which occur in tornadoes and above delta wings. Most scale counterflows are cosmic bipolar jets. Most miniature counterflows occur in capillary menisci of electrosprays and fuel atomizers. This book discusses the physical mechanisms that drive counterflows, examining how they emerge, develop, become double and multiple counterflows, and comprise both global and local circulations.
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ISBN-13:
9781107027596
ISBN-10:
1107027594
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
483
Carton Quantity:
9
Product Dimensions:
7.00 x 1.10 x 10.10 inches
Weight:
2.20 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Price on Product,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Technology & Engineering | Hydraulics
Technology & Engineering | Mechanical
Dewey Decimal:
532.052
Library of Congress Control Number:
2012006878
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Counterflows play important roles in nature and technology. A natural example is the Gulf Stream and the opposite flow in the ocean depths. Technological applications include hydrocyclones, vortex tubes, and vortex combustors. These elongated counterflows are wildly turbulent but survive intense mixing, a seeming paradox. Local counterflows, whose spatial extent is small compared with that of surrounding flows, occur behind bluff bodies and in swirling streams. The latter are often referred to as vortex breakdown bubbles, which occur in tornadoes and above delta wings. Most scale counterflows are cosmic bipolar jets. Most miniature counterflows occur in capillary menisci of electrosprays and fuel atomizers. This book discusses the physical mechanisms that drive counterflows, examining how they emerge, develop, become double and multiple counterflows, and comprise both global and local circulations.
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Author:
Shtern, Vladimir
Dr Vladimir Shtern is an applied mathematician. He received his PhD (1970), Doctor of Sciences (1978) and Professor (1990) degrees from the Institute of Thermal Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia. He has worked at the University of Houston (1990 2003), the University of Seville (1993 1994), the DLR Institute of Fluid Mechanics in Gottingen, Germany (1994 1995), the University of Bristol (1997) and as the Senior Scientist of General Vortex Energy Inc. in Missouri City, Texas (2008 2010). He has also served as a consultant for Shell US and BP-Amoco Exploration. Dr Shtern is a specialist in fluid mechanics and heat transfer with a focus on vortex flows, thermal convection, combustion, hydrodynamic instability and bifurcation theory. His results include analytical solutions of the Navier Stokes, Boussinesq, MHD and compressible gas equations, and explaining mechanisms of intriguing and practically important flow effects, such as multiple solutions, hysteretic transitions and vortex breakdown among others. Dr Shtern is an author of three books and more than one-hundred papers in referred archival journals.
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