S. L. Dixon, B. Eng., Ph.D., honorary senior fellow, Department of Engingeering, University of Liverpool, UK, C. A. Hall, Ph.D., university senior lecturer in turbomachinery, University of Cambridge, UK.
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 -- …
Balance Laws -- to Continuum Physics -- Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws -- The Cauchy Problem -- Entropy and the Stability of Classical Solutions -- The L1 Theory for Scalar Conservation Laws -- Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws in One-Space Dimension -- Admissible Shocks -- Admissible Wave Fans and the Riemann Problem -- Generalized Characteristics. -- Genuinely Nonlinear Scalar Conservati…
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…
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…