Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume One
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Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume One

Overview and Fundamentals

  1. 624 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume One

Overview and Fundamentals

About this book

With major implications for applied physics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, the rapidly growing area of environmental fluid dynamics focuses on the interactions of human activities, environment, and fluid motion. A landmark for the field, the two-volume Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics presents the basic principles, funda

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780367445874
eBook ISBN
9781439816707
Edition
1
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Physics

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Editor
  6. Contributors
  7. Part I: Overview and General Topics
  8. 1. Environmental Fluid Dynamics
  9. 2. Research in EFD and Its Policy Implications
  10. 3. Interdisciplinary Dynamics in EFD Research
  11. 4. Climate Change and Its Effects on Environmental Fluid Systems
  12. 5. Sustainability Implications
  13. 6. Air Quality and Management
  14. 7. Forecasting and Management of Coastal Water Quality
  15. 8. Soil and Aquifer Management
  16. 9. Security and Environmental Fluid Dynamics
  17. 10. Large-Scale Disasters
  18. 11. Risk Assessment
  19. 12. Environmental Law
  20. Part II: Focus Areas for Study of Natural Systems
  21. 13. Physical Limnology
  22. 14. Microbial and Ecological Fluid Dynamics
  23. 15. Micro- and Nano-Scale Flows Relevant to the Environment
  24. 16. Volcanic Flows
  25. 17. Buoyant Outflows to the Coastal Ocean
  26. 18. Hydrodynamics of Coastal Circulation
  27. 19. Ice Dynamics and Transport
  28. Part III: Fundamental Flow Phenomena and Turbulence
  29. 20. Turbulence in the Environment
  30. 21. Turbulent Dispersion
  31. 22. Stratified Hydraulics
  32. 23. Hydraulics of Vegetated Canopies
  33. 24. Canopy Turbulence
  34. 25. Jets and Plumes
  35. 26. Stratified Wakes and Their Signatures
  36. 27. Gravity Currents and Intrusions
  37. 28. Internal Gravity Waves
  38. 29. Rotation Effects in Environmental Flows
  39. 30. Vortex Dynamics
  40. 31. Surface Waves in Coastal Waters
  41. 32. Drops and Bubbles in the Environment
  42. 33. Particle-Laden Flows
  43. 34. Sediment Transport
  44. 35. Flows Involving Phase Change
  45. 36. Turbulent Gas Transfer across Air–Water Interfaces
  46. 37. Convection
  47. 38. Convection (Rotating Fluids)
  48. 39. Double-Diffusive Instabilities
  49. 40. Shallow Shear Flows in Surface Water
  50. 41. Shallow Granular Flows
  51. 42. Turbidity Currents and Powder Snow Avalanches
  52. 43. Mechanics of Debris Flows and Rock Avalanches