Hydraulic Behaviour -- Laboratory Experiments and Simulations on the Significance of Non-Equilibrium Effect in the Capillary Pressure-Saturation Relationship -- Determination of hydro-mechanical Properties of Sand -- Column test apparatus for the inverse estimation of soil hydraulic parameters under defined stress condition -- Water permeability of unsaturated compacted kaolin -- Moisture reten…
Turbomachinery Flow Physics -- Introduction, Turbomachinery, Applications, Types -- Kinematics of Turbomachinery Fluid Motion -- Differential Balances in Turbomachinery -- Integral Balances in Turbomachinery -- Theory of Turbomachinery Stages -- Turbine and Compressor Cascade Flow Forces -- Turbomachinery Losses, Efficiencies, Blades -- Losses in Turbine and Compressor Cascades -- Efficiency of…
Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps in Rd -- Martingale Theory and the Stochastic Integral for Point Processes -- Brownian Motion, Stochastic Integral and Ito's Formula -- Stochastic Differential Equations -- Some Useful Tools in Stochastic Differential Equations -- Stochastic Differential Equations with Non-Lipschitzian Coefficients -- Applications -- How to Use the Stochastic Calculu…
Molecular Structure and Energy States -- Some Basic Concepts of Kinetic Theory -- Interaction of Molecules with Solid Surface -- Free Molecular Flow -- Continuum Models -- Transitional Regime -- Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) Method -- Microscale Slow Gas Flows, IP Method.This book elucidates the methods of molecular gas dynamics or rarefied gas dynamics which treat the problems of gas fl…
Mathematical Preliminaries -- Introductory Applications -- Further Applications -- The Method of Multiple Scales -- Some Worked Examples Arising from Physical Problems.Many areas of science and engineering produce difficult mathematical problems , i.e., problems that cannot be solved in any conventional sense. In many cases, against all the apparent odds, it is possible to construct systematic …
Screw Compressor Geometry -- Calculation of Screw Compressor Performance -- Principles of Screw Compressor Design -- Examples of Modern Screw Compressor Designs -- Conclusions.The first part of "Screw Compressors" gives a review of recent developments in screw compressor design. The second part presents a generalized mathematical definition of screw machine rotors and describes some well known …
Short Primer on Basic Averaging And Modeling Approaches for Turbulent Mixing Instabilities -- '0D' Reduction of Experiments and Models in Mixing Instabilities -- Comparative Assessment of Models, New Development Approaches.Part textbook, part exploratory work, this book aims to raise the awareness of students, physicists, and engineers in turbulence on the modeling of gravitationally induced tu…
Flow regime transition criteria -- Drag forces -- Friction pressure drop -- Diffusion velocities for algebraic slip models -- Entrainment in annular two-phase flow -- Deposition in annular two-phase flow -- to fragmentation and coalescence -- Acceleration induced droplet and bubble fragmentation -- Turbulence induced particle fragmentation and coalescence -- Liquid and gas jet disintegration --…
Mass conservation -- Momentums conservation -- Derivatives for the equations of state -- On the variety of notations of the energy conservation for single-phase flow -- First and second laws of the thermodynamics -- Some simple applications of the mass and energy conservation -- Exergy of multi-phase multi-component systems -- One-dimensional three-fluid flows -- Detonation waves caused by chem…
Equations with One Dependent Function -- Systems of Equations -- Method of the Degenerate Hodograph -- Method of Differential Constraints -- Invariant and Partially Invariant Solutions -- Symmetries of Equations with Nonlocal Operators -- Symbolic Computer Calculations.Differential equations, especially nonlinear, present the most effective way for describing complex physical processes. Each so…