| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics/ by Stefano Pierini. |
| Author: |
Pierini, Stefano. |
| Published: |
Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2025., |
| Description: |
xiii, 305 p. :ill. (chiefly color), digital ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- PART I: Fluid Dynamics in Inertial Reference Frames -- Chapter 2 Forces in fluid dynamics -- Chapter 3 Fundamentals of fluid statics -- Chapter 4 Fundamentals of fluid kinematics -- Chapter 5 The equations of fluid dynamics -- Chapter 6 Turbulence and eddy viscosity -- Chapter 7 Flow at low Reynolds number -- Chapter 8 Flow at large Reynolds number -- Chapter 9 Fundamentals of surface gravity waves -- Chapter 10 Energy and statistics of surface gravity waves -- Chapter 11 Fundamentals ofinternal gravity waves -- PART II: Fluid Dynamics in Rotating Reference Frames -- Chapter 12 Coriolis force, geostrophic motion -- Chapter 13 Characteristics of rotating fluids -- Chapter 14 The thermal wind -- Chapter 15 Ageostrophic winds in the atmospheric boundary layers -- Chapter 16 Ageostrophic currents in the oceanic boundary layers -- Chapter 17 The shallow water approximation -- Chapter 18 Potential vorticity and applications -- Chapter 19 Quasigeostrophic approximation, Rossby waves -- Chapter 20 Oceanic and atmospheric vortices, general circulation -- Appendix 1 Gauss-Green and Stokes theorems -- Appendix 2 Representation of surface forces by means of the stress tensor -- Appendix 3 Relative motion near a point -- Appendix 4 Kelvin's circulation theorem -- Bibliography. |
| Contained By: |
Springer Nature eBook |
| Subject: |
Fluid dynamics. - |
| Online resource: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77991-6 |
| ISBN: |
9783031779916 |