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- Provides an introduction to hydrodynamics that can be used by students of both physics and astrophysics
- Combines hydrodynamics and stellar winds at an undergraduate level with material not available elsewhere for this audience
- Useful for those who want a first approach of hydrodynamics in a concise, clear way
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Introduces hydrodynamics to undergraduate students in physics and astrophysics.
Stellar winds are a common phenomenon in the life of stars, from the dwarfs like the Sun to the red giants and hot supergiants, constituting one of the basic aspects of modern astrophysics. Stellar winds are a hydrodynamic phenomenon in which circumstellar gases expand towards the interstellar medium. This book presents an elementary introduction to the fundamentals of hydrodynamics with an application to the study of stellar winds. The principles of hydrodynamics have many other applications, so that the book can be used as an introduction to hydrodynamics for students of physics, astrophysics and other related areas.
Authors and Affiliations
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Departamento de Astronomia, Cidade Universitaria IAG/USP, São Paulo, Brazil
Walter J. Maciel
About the author
Walter Junqueira Maciel was born in Cruzília, MG, Brazil. He graduated in Physics at UFMG (Minas Gerais Federal University), in Belo Horizonte, and obtained a masters degree at ITA (Aeronautics Technological Institute), São José dos Campos, and a PhD at São Paulo University. He did several internships in Groningen, the Netherlands, and in Heidelberg, Germany. He is a full professor in the Astronomy Department at the Astronomical and Geophysical Institute, São Paulo University, where he has been working since 1974. He was the head of the department between 1992 and 1994. He has published over a hundred scientific papers in international journals and around fifty papers (science, education, and outreach) in national journals. He is the author of the book “Introduction to Stellar Structure and Evolution”(Edusp, 1999), which won the Jabuti Prize in 2000 in the field of exact sciences, technology, and computer sciences, and of the book “Astrophysics of the Interstellar Medium” (Springer,2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hydrodynamics and Stellar Winds
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Walter J. Maciel
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04328-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04327-2Published: 06 March 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04328-9Published: 11 February 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 178
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original Portuguese edition published by EdUSP, São Paulo, 2005
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Fluid- and Aerodynamics