The Flight Environment -- The Thermal State of the Surface -- Transport for Momentum, Energy and Mass -- Real-Gas Aerothermodynamic Phenomena -- Inviscid Aerothermodynamic Phenomena -- Attached High-Speed Viscous Flow -- Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Turbulence in High-Speed Viscous Flow -- Strong Interaction Phenomena -- Simulation Means -- The RHPM-Flyer -- Governing Equations for Flow in …
Kohn's Proof of the Hypoellipticity of the Hörmander Operators -- Compactness Criteria for the Resolvent of Schrödinger Operators -- Global Pseudo-differential Calculus -- Analysis of some Fokker-Planck Operator -- Return to Equillibrium for the Fokker-Planck Operator -- Hypoellipticity and Nilpotent Groups -- Maximal Hypoellipticity for Polynomial of Vector Fields and Spectral Byproducts -- …
Kinematics of the continuous media -- Stress Tensor -- Balance principles -- Constitutive relations -- Variational methods.This book develops a modern presentation of Continuum Mechanics, oriented towards numerical applications in the fields of nonlinear analysis of solids, structures and fluid mechanics. The kinematics of the continuum deformation, including pull-back / push-forward transforma…
Vehicle Energy and Fuel Consumption — Basic Concepts -- IC-Engine-Based Propulsion Systems -- Models of Electric and Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Systems -- Models of Hybrid-Inertial and Hybrid-Hydraulic Propulsion Systems -- Models of Fuel-Cell Propulsion Systems -- Supervisory Control Algorithms -- Appendix I — Case Studies -- Appendix II — Optimal Control Theory.Automobiles are responsib…
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…
Basic quantities and definitions -- The Boltzmann equation and its properties -- The Chapman-Enskog method -- Moment equations -- Grad’s moment method -- Regularization of Grad equations -- Order of magnitude approach -- Macroscopic transport equations for rarefied gas flows -- Stability and dispersion -- Shock structures -- Boundary value problems.The well known transport laws of Navier-Stok…
Basic Statements and Equations of Free Convection -- Free Convection on a Plane -- Free Convection on Curved Surfaces -- Natural Convection in Enclosures -- Free Convection in Tubes and Channels, on Ribbed Surfaces and in Tube Bundles -- Nonstationary Processes of Free Convection -- Heat Transfer by Mixed Convection -- Heat Transfer in Media with Special Properties.Free Convective Heat Transfer…
Origin of entropy in the work of Clausius -- Entropy in the work of Carathéodory. Absolute temperature -- Entropy in the work of Boltzmann -- Enthalpy and equations of state -- Gases and Rubber -- Statistical thermodynamics -- Entropy and energy in competition -- Planetary atmospheres -- Entropy of mixing. Osmosis -- Phase transition -- Phase diagrams -- Chemical reactions -- Shape memory allo…
Introduction -- Thermodynamics, Fundamentals -- Thermodynamics, Power Cycles -- Thermodynamics, Mixtures -- Fluid Mechanics, Single-Phase Flow Fundamentals -- Fluid Mechanics, Flow of Incompressible Viscous Fluid -- Fluid Mechanics, Flow of Compressible Viscous Fluid -- Heat Transfer, Conduction -- Heat Transfer, Forced Convection -- Heat Transfer, Free Convection -- Heat Transfer, Thermal Radi…
From the Contents: Introduction -- Influence of mould-metal interactions on the microstructure of castings - literature studies -- Mould sand system in foundry. This book provides an overview of the surface effects at the interface boundary of metal/sand moulds, and their influence on the surface quality, microstructure and mechanical and anticorrosive properties of high-quality cast iron. I…