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Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows Peter G. Baines (University of Melbourne)

Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows By Peter G. Baines (University of Melbourne)

Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows by Peter G. Baines (University of Melbourne)


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This is a valuable resource for students and teachers of fluid mechanics, providing a deep understanding of the dynamics, and including applications to the flow of the atmosphere and ocean on small to medium scales. This second edition covers significant recent developments and has been restructured into short, digestible chapters.

Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows Summary

Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows by Peter G. Baines (University of Melbourne)

Covering both theory and experiment, this text describes the behaviour of homogeneous and density-stratified fluids over and around topography. Its presentation is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in fluid mechanics, as well as for practising scientists, engineers, and researchers. Using laboratory experiments and illustrations to further understanding, the author explores topics ranging from the classical hydraulics of single-layer flow to more complex situations involving stratified flows over two- and three-dimensional topography, including complex terrain. A particular focus is placed on applications to the atmosphere and ocean, including discussions of downslope windstorms, and of oceanic flow over continental shelves and slopes. This new edition has been restructured to make it more digestible, and updated to cover significant developments in areas such as exchange flows, gravity currents, waves in stratified fluids, stability, and applications to the atmosphere and ocean.

About Peter G. Baines (University of Melbourne)

Peter G. Baines is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He is a winner of the Priestley Medal and a Fellow and first President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. He is currently Secretary of the Royal Society of Victoria.

Table of Contents

1. Background; 2. Nonlinear single-layer flow: classical hydraulics; 3. Nonlinear single-layer flow past obstacles jumps, bores and wave dispersion; 4. Two-layer flow with jumps and topography; 5. Two-layer and stratified flow through contractions; 6. Exchange flows; 7. Gravity currents, downslope and anabatic flows, and stratified hydraulic jumps; 8. Waves in stratified fluids; 9. The stability of stratified flows; 10. Stratified flow over two-dimensional obstacles linear and near-linear theory; 11. Stratified flow over two-dimensional obstacles nonlinear hydraulic models with applications; 12. Stratified flow over three-dimensional topography linear theory; 13. Three-dimensional stratified flow over finite obstacles; 14. Flow over complex and realistic terrain in the atmosphere and ocean; 15. Applications to practical modelling of flow over complex terrain; References; Index.

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NPB9781108722902
9781108722902
1108722903
Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows by Peter G. Baines (University of Melbourne)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2022-01-27
558
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