Hydrodynamic Stability

The new edition of this celebrated book now contains detailed solutions to all the exercises.

P. G. Drazin (Author), W. H. Reid (Author)

9780521525411, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 5 August 2004

628 pages, 105 b/w illus. 9 tables 81 exercises
22.7 x 15.5 x 3.1 cm, 0.81 kg

'… continues to be … essential reading in hydrodynamic stability, in particular for the novice. … detailed solutions to many problems [are] given at the end of each section.' Zentralblatt MATH

Hydrodynamic stability is of fundamental importance in fluid mechanics and is concerned with the problem of transition from laminar to turbulent flow. Drazin and Reid emphasise throughout the ideas involved, the physical mechanisms, the methods used, and the results obtained, and, wherever possible, relate the theory to both experimental and numerical results. A distinctive feature of the book is the large number of problems it contains. These problems not only provide exercises for students but also provide many additional results in a concise form. This new edition of this celebrated introduction differs principally by the inclusion of detailed solutions for those exercises, and by the addition of a Foreword by Professor J. W. Miles.

Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Thermal instability
3. Centrifugal instability
4. Parallel shear flows
5. Uniform asymptotic approximations
6. Additional topics in linear stability theory
7. Nonlinear stability
Appendix A. A class of generalized Airy functions
Appendix B. Solutions to the problems
Bibliography
Motion picture index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Fluid mechanics [PHDF], Applied mathematics [PBW]