TY  - BOOK
AU  - Craik,Alex D.D.
TI  - Wave interactions and fluid flows
T2  - Cambridge monographs on mechanics
SN  - 9780511569548 (ebook)
AV  - TA357 .C73 1985
U1  - 532/.593 19
PY  - 1985///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Fluid dynamics
KW  - Wave-motion, Theory of
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Linear wave interactions --; Flows with piecewise-constant density and velocity --; Stability of an interface --; A three-layer model --; An energy criterion --; Viscous dissipation --; Flows with constant density and continuous velocity profile --; Stability of constant-density flows --; Critical layers and wall layers --; Flows with density stratification and piecewise-constant velocity --; Continuously-stratified flows --; Vortex sheet with stratification --; Over-reflection and energy flux --; The influence of boundaries --; Flows with continuous profiles of density and velocity --; Unbounded shear layers --; Bounded shear layers --; The critical layer in inviscid stratified flow --; Diffusive effects --; Models of mode coupling --; Model dispersion relations --; Mode conversion in inhomogeneous media --; Eigenvalue spectra and localized disturbances --; The temporal eigenvalue spectrum --; The spatial eigenvalue spectrum --; Evolution of localized disturbances --; Introduction to nonlinear theory --; Introduction to nonlinear theory --; Introductory remarks --; Description of a general disturbance --; Review of special cases --; Waves and mean flows --; Spatially-periodic waves in channel flows --; The mean-flow equations --; Particular solutions --; The viscous wall layer --; Spatially-periodic waves on deformable boundaries --; The Eulerian drift velocity of water waves --; 'Swimming' of a wavy sheet --; Modulated wave-packets --; Waves in viscous channel flows --; Waves on a free surface --; Wave propagation in inhomogeneous media --; Wave action and energy
N2  - Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows is a coherent, up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and experiment on wave-interaction phenomena, both in fluids at rest and in shear flows. On the one hand, this includes water waves, internal waves, their evolution and interaction and associated wave-driven mean flows; on the other, phenomena of nonlinear hydrodynamic stability, especially those leading to the onset of turbulence. Close similarities - and crucial differences - exist between these two classes of phenomena and their treatment in this single study provides a particularly valuable bridge between more specialised, but related, disciplines. As a result, this unique book will appeal to researchers and graduate students of fluid mechanics in its widest sense, including the study of wave-interaction phenomena in such diverse fields as meteorology, aeronautical and hydraulic engineering, optics, solar physics and population dynamics. Dr Craik is an active researcher of long-standing at the University of St Andrews and has wide experience in the field of fluid mechanics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511569548
ER  -