Overview
- Gives both researchers and advanced students new to this area of fluid mechanics a pedagogically conceived instrument to improve their knowledge in a structured way
- Equips the reader with the techniques and models needed for real-life applications
- Provides a timely insight into the rapidly developing field of absolute instability
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mathematical Models of Flow Instability
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Flow and Convection in Porous Media
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From Convective to Absolute Instability in Porous Media
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Back Matter
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About this book
The author goes on to discuss the fundamentals of the Rayleigh-Bénard instability and other thermal instabilities of convective flows in porous media, and then analyses various examples of transition from convective to absolute instability in detail, with an emphasis on the formulation, deduction of the dispersion relation and study of the numerical data regarding the threshold of absolute instability. The clear descriptions of the analytical and numerical methods needed to obtain these parametric threshold data enable readers to apply them in different or more general cases.
This book is of interest to postgraduates and researchers in mechanical and thermal engineering, civil engineering, geophysics, applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, and energy technology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Antonio Barletta, at the beginning of his academic career, pursued research on theoretical physics under a grant from the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics. At that time, his main research interests were quantum field theory and general relativity. He is currently a Full Professor of Technical Physics at the School of Engineering and Architecture at Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna in Italy, where his research focuses on convection dynamics and heat transfer of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, as well as of fluid-saturated porous media. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and he is currently an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and of the International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Routes to Absolute Instability in Porous Media
Authors: Antonio Barletta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06194-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06193-7Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-06194-4Published: 02 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 283
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations
Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Engineering Mathematics