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Fluid mechanics for industrial safety and environmental protection /
This volume discusses applications of the science of fluid mechanics to the new and expanding fields of industrial safety and environmental protection. The material is organized in accordance with the chain-of-events in real accidents, starting with the loss of containment of hazardous fluids, going...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier,
1994.
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| Colección: | Industrial safety series ;
3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. The role of fluid mechanics in safety and environmental protection
- chapter 2. Properties and phenomena characterizing nonhomogeneous flows
- chapter 3. Steady and quasi-steady outflow due to gravity
- chapter 4. Unsteady outflow driven by gravity
- chapter 5. Outflow from pressurized containers and pipelines
- chapter 6. Liquid spills on the ground
- spreading and evaporation
- chapter 7. Liquid spills on water
- the problem of oil pollution
- chapter 8. Unsteady diffusion from a finite volume
- chapter 9. Passive dispersion from steady sources in a turbulent environment
- chapter 10. Steady and unsteady buoyant releases in the atmosphere
- chapter 11. Jets and plumes in crossflow
- chapter 12. Gravity-driven flows with large changes in buoyancy
- chapter 13. Heavy-gas dispersion in the laboratory and in the atmosphere
- chapter 14. The effects of plume-surface interactions
- chapter 15. Fire, combustion processes and combustion waves
- chapter 16. Explosions and pressure waves
- chapter 17. Theoretical solutions for strong explosions
- chapter 18. Damage criteria and damage assessment.