TY - BOOK AU - Chevray,René TI - Topics in Fluid Mechanics \ René Chevray SN - 052142272 U1 - 532 C529 CY - Canada PB - Cambridge 1993 KW - MECANICA DE FLUIDOS N1 - 1. Preface 2. Notation 3. Basic Concepts 4. Toward a Constitutive Law for Fluid Materials 5. Vorticity Laws 6. Fundamental concepts of turbulence 7. Dynamical Systems and Chaotic Advection 8. Boundary Layer Theory 9. Wave Propagation 10. Fundamentaks of Classical Thermodynamics 11. Appendixes 12. Index N2 - The book offers a novel but unified treatment of an established subject. It presents each topic as part of a wider class of problems so that a unity of concepts is emphasized over a unity of material. The authors aim for simplicity in presentation, stressing physical understanding over mathematical development. Specialized subjects such as chaotic advection, chaos and the onset of turbulence--problems that are being tackled in research and industry now--are given particular attention ER -