Overview
- Aimed at a broad audience of readers interested in the Navier–Stokes equations, from students to engineers and professional mathematicians
- Each self-contained chapter includes an array of exercises and a collection of lively figures to elucidate the text
- Based on 15 years of lectures on infinite dimensional dynamical systems at the University of Warsaw, UNICAMP, and the Université Jean Monnet
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics (AMMA)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Incompressible Navier–Stokes equations describe the dynamic motion (flow) of incompressible fluid, the unknowns being the velocity and pressure as functions of location (space) and time variables. A solution to these equations predicts the behavior of the fluid, assuming knowledge of its initial and boundary states. These equations are one of the most important models of mathematical physics: although they have been a subject of vivid research for more than 150 years, there are still many open problems due to the nature of nonlinearity present in the equations. The nonlinear convective term present in the equations leads to phenomena such as eddy flows and turbulence. In particular, the question of solution regularity for three-dimensional problem was appointed by Clay Institute as one of the Millennium Problems, the key problems in modern mathematics. The problem remains challenging and fascinating for mathematicians, and the applications of the Navier–Stokes equations range from aerodynamics (drag and lift forces), to the design of watercraft and hydroelectric power plants, to medical applications such as modeling the flow of blood in the circulatory system.
Reviews
“This book, which was written with the intent of being useful to researchers willing to learn about the mathematics as well as graduate students and researchers studying the dynamical systems approach to the Navier-Strokes equations, can also be used as a textbook in a wide range of graduate classes in mathematical fluid mechanics... .” (Luigi Carlo Berselli, Mathematical Reviews, June,2017)
“This book is devoted to the mathematical theory of the NSE for incompressible fluids. The basic, classical, and non-classical tools are included, and part of the material comes from original articles published by the authors. … each chapter is concluded with a brief discussion of the literature and essential remarks concerning, among others, the priority results. … This book will be definitely useful for those who already know the subject and who are interested in mathematical aspects of hydrodynamics.” (Andrzej Icha, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 174, 2017)
“This is a monograph devoted to a theory of Navier-Stokes system with a clear stress on applications to specific modificationsand extensions of the Navier-Stokes equations … . The presentation is as simple as possible, exercises, examples, comments and bibliographical notes are valuable complements of the theory. … The book will be certainly useful for researchers as well as students and post-graduate students in mathematics, physics and engineering … .” (Piotr Biler, zbMATH 1352.35001, 2017)
“The Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the movement of fluids, are an important source of topics for scientific research, technological development and innovation. … written in a comprehensive and easy-to-read style for undergraduate students as well as engineers, mathematicians, and physicists interested in studying fluid motion from a systems approach and mathematical modeling of processes and phenomena. … a useful reference book for all those who wish to approach the Navier-Stokes equations from a very formal and rigorous modern approach.” (Melio Sáenz, ResearchGate, researchgate.net, December, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Piotr Kalita works at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. His research interests include global dynamics for evolutionary partial differential equations, inequalities, and inclusions;
modeling in mathematical physics; and numerical methods for evolutionary problems."
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Navier–Stokes Equations
Book Subtitle: An Introduction with Applications
Authors: Grzegorz Łukaszewicz, Piotr Kalita
Series Title: Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27760-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27758-5Published: 20 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80210-7Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27760-8Published: 12 April 2016
Series ISSN: 1571-8689
Series E-ISSN: 1876-9896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 390
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Partial Differential Equations, Ordinary Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, Engineering Fluid Dynamics