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Fluid Physics in Geology : an Introduction to Fluid Motions on Earth's Surface and within Its Crust.
Preface Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Topics and Strategies in the Study of Fluid Physics1.2. Units and Mathematical Conventions1.3. Scope of Mathematics Used in This Text1.4. Example Problems1.5. ReadingChapter 2: Fluids and Porous Media as Continua 2.1. Mean Free Path2.2. Mathematical and Physical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Menu; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Topics and Strategies in the Study of Fluid Physics; 1.2 Units and Mathematical Conventions; 1.3 Scope of Mathematics Used in This Text; 1.3.1 Analytical solutions, vectors, and tensors; 1.3.2 Partial differential notation; 1.4 Example Problems; 1.4.1 Steady one-dimensional heat and water flows: a structural homology; 1.4.2 Sediment particles, vesicles, and olivine crystals: a case of geometric similitude; 1.4.3 Series, averages, covariances, and autocovariances of physical quantities; 1.5 Reading.
- 2. Fluids and Porous Media as Continua2.1 Mean Free Path; 2.2 Mathematical and Physical Points; 2.3 Representative Elementary Volume; 2.4 Example Problems; 2.4.1 Shear of thin liquid films: behavior below the continuum scale; 2.4.2 Fractal pore geometry; 2.4.3 Porosity estimates of regularly and randomly packed particles; 2.4.4 Covariance of porosity; 2.5 Reading; 3. Mechanical Properties of Fluids and Porous Media; 3.1 Body and Surface Forces; 3.2 Ideal versus Real Fluids; 3.3 Density; 3.3.1 Fluids; 3.3.2 Porous media; 3.4 Fluid Rheology and Shear Viscosity; 3.4.1 Newtonian fluids.
- 3.4.2 Non-Newtonian fluids3.5 Compressibility; 3.5.1 Fluids; 3.5.2 Porous media; 3.6 Surface Tension; 3.6.1 Surface tension as a potential energy; 3.6.2 Bubble pressure and capillarity; 3.7 Example Problems; 3.7.1 Velocity distributions in viscous fluids: Couette, conduit, and free-surface flows; 3.7.2 Free-surface flow of a Bingham plastic: nonturbulent lava streams and debris flows; 3.7.3 Surface tension in unsaturated flow: bubbling pressure; 3.8 Reading; 4. Thermodynamic Properties of Fluids; 4.1 Specific Heat; 4.2 Heat Conduction; 4.3 Fluid Phases; 4.4 Equations of State.
- 4.4.1 Ideal gases4.4.2 Real gases; 4.4.3 Liquids; 4.5 Thermodynamic State and the First Law of Thermodynamics; 4.6 Isobaric and Isothermal Processes; 4.6.1 Specific heat of an ideal gas; 4.6.2 Phase transitions; 4.7 Adiabatic Processes; 4.8 Compressibility and Thermal Expansion; 4.9 Bulk Viscosity; 4.10 Example Problems; 4.10.1 Change in ice temperature with steady heat inflow; 4.10.2 An empirical equation of state for water; 4.10.3 Water loss from a geyser: thermal effects; 4.10.4 Ice regelation and glacier movement; 4.10.5 Growth of carbon dioxide bubbles in a liquid; 4.11 Reading.
- 5. Dimensional Analysis and Similitude5.1 Dimensional Homogeneity; 5.2 Dimensional Quantities; 5.2.1 Viscosity of a gas; 5.2.2 Average velocity in conduit flow; 5.2.3 Drag on a spherical particle: the Reynolds number; 5.3 Buckingham Pi Theorem; 5.4 Geometrical Similitude; 5.4.1 Exact; 5.4.2 Statistical; 5.5 Dynamical Similitude; 5.6 Characteristic Dimensionless Quantities; 5.7 Example Problems; 5.7.1 Drag on a spherical particle using Buckingham Pi theorem; 5.7.2 Drag on spinose foraminifera; 5.7.3 Geometrical similitude of randomly packed, unconsolidated sand grains; 5.8 Reading.