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UNINA9910457542503321 |
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Titolo |
Environmental hazards [[electronic resource] ] : the fluid dynamics and geophysics of extreme events / / editors, H.K. Moffatt, Emily Shuckburgh |
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Singapore, : World Scientific, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-43340-0 |
9786613433404 |
981-4313-29-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Collana |
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Lecture notes series / Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore ; ; v. 21 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MoffattH. K <1935-> (Henry Keith) |
ShuckburghEmily |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Climatic extremes |
Atmospheric turbulence |
Natural disasters |
Fluid mechanics |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a Spring School on Fluid Dynamics and Geophysics of Environmental Hazards from 19 April to 2 May 2009. This volume contains the content of the nine short lecture courses given at this School ..."--Back cover. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. A Brief Introduction to Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence H. Keith Moffatt; 1. Introduction; 2. Vorticity and the Biot-Savart Law; 3. The Euler Equation and its Invariants; 4. The Stretched Vortex of Burgers (1948); 5. Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability; 6. Transient Instability and Streamwise Vortices; 7. Turbulence, Viewed as a Random Field of Vorticity; 8. The Kolmogorov-Obukhov Energy-Cascade Theory; Acknowledgments; References; 2. Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics Tieh-Yong Koh and Paul F. Linden; 1. Introduction; 2. Stratified Flows |
2.1. Surface Gravity Waves2.1.1. Dimensional analysis; 2.1.2. Exact |
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