Rayleigh-Benard Convection: Structures and Dynamics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810226572)

This invaluable book presents a concise but systematic account of the formation of spatial flow structures in a horizontal fluid layer heated from below. Flows of this type, known as Rayleigh-Bénard convection, show important features of behaviour inherent not only in various hydrodynamic-instability phenomena but also in nonlinear pattern-forming processes in other contexts. The book describes the basic methods of investigating convection patterns, and the types of two- and three-dimensional flows, pattern defects, and sequences of convection-regime changes.The author pays special attention to the question of how various factors (mainly reducible to initial and boundary conditions) determine the shapes and sizes of the structures which develop. In this way, the role of order and disorder in flow patterns, as a factor strongly affecting the character of the evolution of structures, is revealed. The presentation emphasizes the physical picture of these phenomena, without excessive mathematical detail.

Author: Alexander V. Getling
ISBN-10: 9810226578
ISBN-13: 9789810226572
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 03/06/1998
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.10w x 0.60d