Overview
- Provides the detail foundations of Boussinesq and anelastic convection
- Discusses derivations of all equations and approximations
- Offers an in-depth explanation of the physical nature of convective instability
Part of the book series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences (GEPS)
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This book continues the process of systematization of knowledge about convection. It is important to put the current knowledge on weakly and strongly stratified convection in order, and provide a comprehensive description of the marginal, weakly nonlinear and fully developed stages of convective flow in both cases. The book provides a short compendium of knowledge on the linear and weakly nonlinear limits of the Boussinesq convection, and a review of the theory on fully developed Boussinesq convection. The third chapter is devoted to a detailed derivation and a study of the three aforementioned stages of stratified (anelastic) convection, with a full solution in the marginal stage provided for the first time. Detailed and systematic explanations are given. The book is intended mainly as a textbook for courses on hydrodynamics and convective flows, for the use of lecturers and students; however, it also serves for the entire scientific community as a practical reference.
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Book Title: Foundations of Convection with Density Stratification
Authors: Krzysztof A. Mizerski
Series Title: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63054-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63053-9Published: 30 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63056-0Published: 31 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63054-6Published: 29 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2190-5193
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5207
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Thermodynamics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics