Scaling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521826570)

Starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity, G. Barenblatt describes the art of discovering scaling laws. He demonstrates the concepts of intermediate asymptotics and the renormalization group as natural consequences of self-similarity and shows how and when these tools can tackle the task at hand, and when they cannot. Based on courses taught to undergraduate and graduate students, the book can also be used independently by biologists, chemists, astronomers, engineers and geoscientists.

Author: Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt
ISBN-10: 0521826578
ISBN-13: 9780521826570
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2003
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d