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Hydrodynamic Instabilities

François Charru
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 
2011
Number of Pages: 
391
Format: 
Paperback
Series: 
Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics
Price: 
65.00
ISBN: 
9780521143516
Category: 
Textbook
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Preface
1. Introduction
2. Instabilities of fluids at rest
3. Stability of open flows: basic ideas
4. Inviscid instability of parallel flows
5. Viscous instability of parallel flows
6. Instabilities at low Reynolds number
7. Avalanches, ripples, and dunes
8. Nonlinear dynamics of systems with few degrees of freedom
9. Nonlinear dispersive waves
10. Nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems
11. Dynamical systems and bifurcations
Appendix. The Saint–Venant equations
Bibliography
Index.