Over the last decade, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become a - ture technology for the development of new products in aeronautical industry. Aerodynamic design engineers have progressively taken advantage of the pos- bilities o?ered by the numericalsolutionof the Reynolds averagedNavier-Stokes (RANS) equations. Signi?cant improvements in physical modeling and solution algorithms as well as the enormous increase of computer power enable hi- ?delity numerical simulations in all stages of aircraft development. In Germany, the national CFD project MEGAFLOW furthered the dev- opment and availability of RANS solvers for the prediction of complex ?ow problemssigni?cantly. MEGAFLOWwasinitiated by the?rstaviationresearch programoftheFederalGovernmentin1995undertheleadershipoftheDLR(see Kroll, N. , Fassbender, J. K. (Eds). : MEGAFLOW - Numerical Flow Simulation for Aircraft Design; Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, Volume 89, Springer, 2005). A network from aircraft industry, DLR and several universities was created with the goal to focus and direct development activities for numerical ?ow simulation towards a common aerodynamic si- lation system providing both a block-structured (FLOWer-Code) and a hybrid (TAU-Code) parallel ? ow prediction capability. Today, both codes have reached a high level of maturity and reliability. They are routinely used at DLR and German aeronautic industry for a wide range of aerodynamic applications. For many universities the MEGAFLOW software represents a platform for the - provementofphysicalmodelsandfortheinvestigationofcomplex?owproblems. The network was established as an e?cient group of very closely co-operating partners with supplementing expertises and experience.

This short but complicated book is very demanding of any reader. The scope and style employed preserve the nature of its subject: the turbulence phe nomena in gas and liquid flows which are believed to occur at sufficiently high Reynolds numbers. Since at first glance the field of interest is chaotic, time-dependent and three-dimensional, spread over a wide range of scales, sta tistical treatment is convenient rather than a description of fine details which are not of importance in the first place. When coupled to the basic conserva tion laws of fluid flow, such treatment, however, leads to an unclosed system of equations: a consequence termed, in the scientific community, the closure problem. This is the central and still unresolved issue of turbulence which emphasizes its chief peculiarity: our inability to do reliable predictions even on the global flow behavior. The book attempts to cope with this difficult task by introducing promising mathematical tools which permit an insight into the basic mechanisms involved. The prime objective is to shed enough light, but not necessarily the entire truth, on the turbulence closure problem. For many applications it is sufficient to know the direction in which to go and what to do in order to arrive at a fast and practical solution at minimum cost. The book is not written for easy and attractive reading."

Modelling Fluid Flow presents invited lectures, workshop summaries and a selection of papers from a recent international conference CMFF '03 on fluid technology. The lectures follow the current evolution and the newest challenges of the computational methods and measuring techniques related to fluid flow. The workshop summaries reflect the recent trends, open questions and unsolved problems in the mutually inspiring fields of experimental and computational fluid mechanics. The papers cover a wide range of fluids engineering, including reactive flow, chemical and process engineering, environmental fluid dynamics, turbulence modelling, numerical methods, and fluid machinery.

1. Objective and Scope Bubbles, drops and rigid particles occur everywhere in life, from valuable industrial operations like gas-liquid contracting, fluidized beds and extraction to such vital natural processes as fermentation, evaporation, and sedimentation. As we become increasingly aware of their fundamental role in industrial and biological systems, we are driven to know more about these fascinating particles. It is no surprise, therefore, that their practical and theoretical implications have aroused great interest among the scientific community and have inspired a growing number of studies and publications. Over the past ten years advances in the field of small Reynolds numbers flows and their technological and biological applications have given rise to several definitive monographs and textbooks in the area. In addition, the past three decades have witnessed enormous progress in describing quantitatively the behaviour of these particles. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are still no available books that reflect such achievements in the areas of bubble and drop deformation, hydrodynamic interactions of deformable fluid particles at low and moderate Reynolds numbers and hydrodynamic interactions of particles in oscillatory flows. Indeed, only one more book is dedicated entirely to the behaviour of bubbles, drops and rigid particles ["Bubbles, Drops and Particles" by Clift et al. (1978)] and the authors state its limitations clearly in the preface: "We treat only phenomena in which particle-particle interactions are of negligible importance. Hence, direct application of the book is limited to single-particle systems of dilute suspensions.

The interest in the field of active flow control (AFC) is steadily increasing. In - cent years the number of conferences and special sessions devoted to AFC org- ized by various institutions around the world continuously rises. New advanced courses for AFC are offered by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Ast- nautics (AIAA), the European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC), the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), to name just a few. New books on AFC are published by prominent colleagues of our field and even a new periodical, the 'International Journal of Flow Control', appeared. Despite these many activities in AFC it was felt that a follow-up of the highly successful 'ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL' Conference held in Berlin in 2006 was appropriate. As in 2006, 'ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL II' consisted only of invited lectures. To sti- late multidisciplinary discussions between experimental, theoretical and numerical fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, turbomachinary, mathematics, control engineering, metrology and computer science parallel sessions were excluded. Unfortunately, not all of the presented papers made it into this volume. As the preparation and printing of a book takes time and as this volume should be available at the conf- ence, the Local Organizing Committee had to set up a very ambitious time sch- ule which could not be met by all contributors.

Ludwig Prandtl, with his fundamental contributions to hydrodynamics, ae- dynamics, and gas dynamics, greatly in?uenced the development of ?uid - chanics as a whole, and it was his pioneering research in the ?rst half of the last century that founded modern ?uid mechanics. His book Fu]hrer durch die Str]omungslehre, which appeared in 1942, originated from previous pub- cations in 1913, Lehre von der Flu]ssigkeit und Gasbewegung, and 1931, Abriss der Str]omungslehre. The title Fu]hrer durch die Str]omungslehre, or Essentials of Fluid Mechanics, is an indication of Prandtl's intentions to guide the reader on a carefully thought-out path through the di?erent areas of ?uid mech- ics. On his way, the author advances intuitively to the core of the physical problem, without extensive mathematical derivations. The description of the fundamental physical phenomena and concepts of ?uid mechanics that are needed to derive the simpli?ed models has priority over a formal treatment of the methods. This is in keeping with the spirit of Prandtl's research work. The ?rst edition of Prandtl's Fu]hrer durch die Str]omungslehre was the only book on ?uid mechanics of its time and, even today, counts as one of the most important books in this area. After Prandtl's death, his students Klaus Oswatitsch and Karl Wieghardt undertook to continue his work, and to add new ?ndings in ?uid mechanics in the same clear manner of presentation."

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on "Analytical and Computational Fracture Mechanics of Non-homogeneous Materials," held in Cardiff from 18th to 22nd June 2001. The Symposium was convened to address and place on record topical issues in analytical and computational aspects of the fracture of non-homogeneous materials as they are approached by specialists in mechanics, materials science and related fields. The expertise represented in the Symposium was accordingly very wide, and many of the world's greatest authorities in their respective fields participated. Given the extensive range and scale of non-homogeneous materials, it had to be focussed to enhance the quality and impact of the Symposium. The range of non-homogeneous materials was limited to those that are inhomogeneous at the macroscopic level and/or exhibit strain softening. The issues of micro to macro scaling were not excluded even within this restricted range which covered materials such as rock, concrete, ceramics and composites on the one hand, and, on the other, those metallic materials whose ductile fracture is strongly influenced by the presence of inhomogeneities. The Symposium remained focussed on fundamental research issues of practical significance. These issues have many common features among seemingly disparate non-homogeneous materials.

The present set of lectures and tutorial reviews deals with various topical aspects related to instabilities of interfacial processes and driven flows from both the theoretical and experimental point of views. New research has been spurred by demands for many applications in material sciences (melting, solidification, electro deposition), biomedical engineering and processing in microgravity environments. This book is intended as both a modern source of reference for researchers in the field as well as an introduction to postgraduate students and non-specialists from related areas.

TheCarg'eseSummerSchool"Sound-?owinteractions"washeldinthe- stitutd'EtudesScienti?quesdeCarg'eseinCorsica,Francefrom19thJune to1stJuly,2000. Theunderstandingofsoundand?owinteractionshasmadesomerema- ableprogresssincethepioneeringworksoftheRussianandBritishschools, inthe1950s. Inaddition,thegrowingavailabilityduringthepast10years ofsophisticatedcomputer/electronics/materialstechniquesallowsforthe- velopmentofagrowingnumberofapplicationsaswellasthepossibilityof addressingnewfundamentalproblems. Thecouplingbetweenacousticwaves and?owmotionisbasicallynonlinear,sothatthesoundpropagationand generationismodi?edbythe?owandthe?owcanalsobemodi?edbythe sound. Asaresult,thisproblemisinvestigatedinmanydi?erentscienti?c communities,suchasappliedmathematics,acousticsand?uidmechanics, amongothers. Inouropinion,thetimehadcometotrytogatherthe- searchersinthedi?erentcommunitiestogetherinatutorialenvironemnt. So, thisschoolbroughttogetherworldwidespecialistsinordertopresentvarious aspectsofsound-?owinteractions,andshareexpertiseandmethodologiesso astopromotecross-fertilisation. ThebasicknowledgeintheareaisintroducedbyA. HirschbergandC. Schram. Hepresentstheaeroacousticsofinternal?owinaverylivelyway withalotofillustrationdevices. Heintroducesaeroacousticanalogiesand applicationslikemusicalinstruments,theRijketube,speechproductionetc. M. S. Howeintroducesthetheoryofvortexsoundinaverydidacticway. From Lighthill'sacousticanalogy,heshowshowvorticityandentropy?uctuations canbeseenassourcesofsound. Then,usingthecompactGreen'sfunctions, heshowshowtocomputethevortexsound. Asanexampleofthemethod presented,heappliesthistheorytopressuretransientsgeneratedbyhi- speedtrains. F. Lundgivesthebasicequationsofsound-?owinteractions. Thenheintroducesveryclearlythescatteringofsoundbecauseofvorticity andgivesthemostrecentresultsonultrasoundpropagationthroughadis- dered?ow. V. Ostashevpresentsgeometricalacousticsinmovingmediaand theimportantpracticalproblemofsoundpropagationinturbulence(at- sphere,ocean). A. Fabrikantexaminestheplasma-hydrodynamicsanalogies includingtheresonantwave-?owinteractioninshear?ows,wavesofnegative VI Preface energyandover-re?ectionandacousticoscillatorsin?uid?ows. P. J. Mor- sondescribesthedynamicsofthecontinuousspectrumwhichoccursinshear ?ow. Theresultsareinterpretedinthecontextofin?nitedimensionalHam- toniansystemstheory. G. Chagelishvilipresentsnewlinearmechanismsof acousticwavegenerationinsmoothshear?owsusinganon-modalstudy. N. Peakepresents?uid-structureinteractionsinthepresenceofmean?ows, includingtheproblemsofinstabilityandcausality. Finally,W. Lauterborn presentsnonlinearacousticswithapplicationstosonoluminescenceandto acousticchaos. InthisCarg'eseSummerSchool,54studentsfrom12nations,and11l- turersfrom7nationsparticipated. Aknowledgements. TheSummerSchoolandthispublicationwouldnot havebeenpossiblewithout: *?nancialsupportfromtheEuropeanUnion,theCentreNationaldela RechercheScienti?que,theMinist'eredesA?airesEtrang'eres,theM- ist'eredel'EducationNationale,delaRechercheetdelaTechnologieand theGroupementdeRecherche"Turbulence"; *the guidance of Elisabeth Dubois-Violette, director of the Institut d'EtudesScienti?quesdeCarg'ese; *thehelpofChantalAriano,NathalieBedjai,BrigitteCassegrain,Pierre- EricGrossiandthewholeteaminpreparingandhostingofthisschool. Finally,wewishtothankthelecturersforgivingsomuchtimeinprep- ingthelecturesandwritingthemup,aswellasmakingthemselvesavailable fordiscussionsduringtheschool. 1 LeMans,Paris,Lyon YvesAur'egan , 2 September2001 Agn'esMaurel , 1 VincentPagneux , 3 Jean-Fran,coisPinton . 1 Laboratoired'Acoustiquedel'Universit'eduMaine,UMRCNRS6613, Av. OMessiaen,72085LeMansCedex9,France 2 LaboratoireOndesetAcoustique,UMRCNRS7587, ESPCI,10rueVauquelin,75005Paris,France 3 LaboratoiredePhysique,UMRCNRS1325, EcoleNormaleSup'erieuredeLyon,46all'eed'Italie,69007Lyon,France Preface VII SomeofthelecturersoftheCarg'eseSchool,fromlefttoright:M. S. Howe,A. Hirschberg,P. Morrison,W. Lauterborn,V. Ostashev,A. Fabrikant,N. Peake, T. Colonius(PhotoC. Schram) SomeoftheparticipantsoftheCarg'eseSchool(PhotoC. Schram) TableofContents APrimitiveApproachtoAeroacoustics AvrahamHirschberg,ChristopheSchram...1 1 Introduction ...1 2 FluidDynamics ...2 3 Lighthill'sAnalogy...4 4 JetNoise ...7 5 Thermo-Acoustics ...9 6 AcousticalEnergy ...10 7 Rijke-Tube...11 8 Vortex-SoundTheory ...14 9 ChoiceoftheGreen'sFunction...17 10 Howe'?owinteractions,andshareexpertiseandmethodologiesso astopromotecross-fertilisation. ThebasicknowledgeintheareaisintroducedbyA. HirschbergandC. Schram. Hepresentstheaeroacousticsofinternal?owinaverylivelyway withalotofillustrationdevices. Heintroducesaeroacousticanalogiesand applicationslikemusicalinstruments,theRijketube,speechproductionetc. M. S. Howeintroducesthetheoryofvortexsoundinaverydidacticway. From Lighthill'sacousticanalogy,heshowshowvorticityandentropy?uctuations canbeseenassourcesofsound. Then,usingthecompactGreen'sfunctions, heshowshowtocomputethevortexsound. Asanexampleofthemethod presented,heappliesthistheorytopressuretransientsgeneratedbyhi- speedtrains. F. Lundgivesthebasicequationsofsound-?owinteractions. Thenheintroducesveryclearlythescatteringofsoundbecauseofvorticity andgivesthemostrecentresultsonultrasoundpropagationthroughadis- dered?ow. V. Ostashevpresentsgeometricalacousticsinmovingmediaand theimportantpracticalproblemofsoundpropagationinturbulence(at- sphere,ocean). A. Fabrikantexaminestheplasma-hydrodynamicsanalogies includingtheresonantwave-?owinteractioninshear?ows,wavesofnegative VI Preface energyandover-re?ectionandacousticoscillatorsin?uid?ows. P. J. Mor- sondescribesthedynamicsofthecontinuousspectrumwhichoccursinshear ?ow. Theresultsareinterpretedinthecontextofin?nitedimensionalHam- toniansystemstheory. G. Chagelishvilipresentsnewlinearmechanismsof acousticwavegenerationinsmoothshear?owsusinganon-modalstudy. N. Peakepresents?uid-structureinteractionsinthepresenceofmean?ows, includingtheproblemsofinstabilityandcausality. Finally,W. Lauterborn presentsnonlinearacousticswithapplicationstosonoluminescenceandto acousticchaos. InthisCarg'eseSummerSchool,54studentsfrom12nations,and11l- turersfrom7nationsparticipated. Aknowledgements. TheSummerSchoolandthispublicationwouldnot havebeenpossiblewithout: *?nancialsupportfromtheEuropeanUnion,theCentreNationaldela RechercheScienti?que,theMinist'eredesA?airesEtrang'eres,theM- ist'eredel'EducationNationale,delaRechercheetdelaTechnologieand theGroupementdeRecherche"Turbulence"; *the guidance of Elisabeth Dubois-Violette, director of the Institut d'EtudesScienti?quesdeCarg'ese; *thehelpofChantalAriano,NathalieBedjai,BrigitteCassegrain,Pierre- EricGrossiandthewholeteaminpreparingandhostingofthisschool. Finally,wewishtothankthelecturersforgivingsomuchtimeinprep- ingthelecturesandwritingthemup,aswellasmakingthemselvesavailable fordiscussionsduringtheschool. 1 LeMans,Paris,Lyon YvesAur'egan , 2 September2001 Agn'esMaurel , 1 VincentPagneux , 3 Jean-FranccoisPinton . 1 Laboratoired'Acoustiquedel'Universit'eduMaine,UMRCNRS6613, Av. OMessiaen,72085LeMansCedex9,France 2 LaboratoireOndesetAcoustique,UMRCNRS7587, ESPCI,10rueVauquelin,75005Paris,France 3 LaboratoiredePhysique,UMRCNRS1325, EcoleNormaleSup'erieuredeLyon,46all'eed'Italie,69007Lyon,France Preface VII SomeofthelecturersoftheCarg'eseSchool,fromlefttoright:M. S. Howe,A. Hirschberg,P. Morrison,W. Lauterborn,V. Ostashev,A. Fabrikant,N. Peake, T. Colonius(PhotoC. Schram) SomeoftheparticipantsoftheCarg'eseSchool(PhotoC. Schram) TableofContents APrimitiveApproachtoAeroacoustics AvrahamHirschberg,ChristopheSchram...1 1 Introduction ...1 2 FluidDynamics ...2 3 Lighthill'sAnalogy...4 4 JetNoise ...7 5 Thermo-Acoustics ...9 6 AcousticalEnergy ...10 7 Rijke-Tube...11 8 Vortex-SoundTheory ...14 9 ChoiceoftheGreen'sFunction...17 10 Howe'sEnergyCorollary ...20 11 TheOpenPipeTerminationofanUn?angedPipe ...21 12 Whistler-NozzleandHumanWhistling ...25 13 Conclusion...27 References...28 LecturesontheTheoryofVortex-Sound MichaelS. Howe...31 1 AerodynamicSound...31 1. 1 Lighthill'sAcousticAnalogy(1952)...31 1. 2 AerodynamicSoundfromLow-Mach-NumberTurbulence ofUniformMeanDensity...34 1. 3 AerodynamicSoundfromLow-Mach-NumberTurbulence ofVariableMeanDensity...35 2 VorticityandEntropyFluctuations asSourcesofSound...37 2. 1 TheRoleofVorticityinLighthill'sTheory...37 2. 2 AcousticAnalogyinTermsoftheTotalEnthalpy...39 2. 3 VorticityandEntropySources...40 3 FundamentalSolutionsoftheWaveEquation...43 3. 1 TheHelmholtzEquation...43 3. 2 TheWaveEquation...46 4 GeneralSolutionoftheInhomogeneousWaveEquation...47 4. 1 GeneralSolutionintheFrequency-Domain...47 X TableofContents 4. 2 GeneralSolutionintheTime-Domain...49 5 CompactGreen'sFunctions...

The utilization of mathematical models to numerically describe the performance of internal combustion engines is of great significance in the development of new and improved engines. Today, such simulation models can already be viewed as standard tools, and their importance is likely to increase further as available com puter power is expected to increase and the predictive quality of the models is constantly enhanced. This book describes and discusses the most widely used mathematical models for in-cylinder spray and combustion processes, which are the most important subprocesses affecting engine fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. The relevant thermodynamic, fluid dynamic and chemical principles are summarized, and then the application of these principles to the in-cylinder processes is ex plained. Different modeling approaches for the each subprocesses are compared and discussed with respect to the governing model assumptions and simplifica tions. Conclusions are drawn as to which model approach is appropriate for a specific type of problem in the development process of an engine. Hence, this book may serve both as a graduate level textbook for combustion engineering stu dents and as a reference for professionals employed in the field of combustion en gine modeling. The research necessary for this book was carried out during my employment as a postdoctoral scientist at the Institute of Technical Combustion (ITV) at the Uni versity of Hannover, Germany and at the Engine Research Center (ERC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA."

This book is an effort to explore the technical aspects associated with bird flight and migration on wings. After a short introduction on the birds migration, the book reviews the aerodynamics and Energetics of Flight and presents the calculation of the Migration Range. In addition, the authors explains aerodynamics of the formation flight and finally introduces great flight diagrams.

Differential equations, especially nonlinear, present the most effective way for describing complex physical processes. Methods for constructing exact solutions of differential equations play an important role in applied mathematics and mechanics. This book aims to provide scientists, engineers and students with an easy-to-follow, but comprehensive, description of the methods for constructing exact solutions of differential equations.

The subject of wave phenomena is well-known for its inter-disciplinary nature. Progress in this field has been made both through the desire to solve very practical problems, arising in acoustics, optics, radiophysics, electronics, oceanography, me teorology and so on, and through the development of mathematical physics which emphasized that completely different physical phenomena are governed by the same (or similar) equations. In the immense literature on physics of waves there is no lack of good presentations of particular branches or general textbooks on mathematical physics. But if one restricts the attention to pulse propagation phenomena, one no tices that many useful facts are scattered among the various books and journals, and their connections are not immediately apparent. For example, the problems involv ing acoustic pulse propagation in bubbly liquids and those related to electromagnetic pulses in resonant media are usually treated without much cross reference in spite of their obvious connections. The authors of this book have attempted to write a coherent account of a few pulse propagation problems selected from different branches of applied physics. Although the basic material on linear pulse propagation is included, some topics have their own unique twists, and a comprehensive treatment of this body of material can hardly be found in other sources. First of all, the problem of pulse propagation in non equilibrium media (unstable or admitting attenuation) is far more delicate than it is apparent at a first glance."

The survival of the Aeronautical Industries of Europe in the highly competitive World Aviation Market is strongly dependent on such factors as time-to-market of a new or derivative aircraft and on its manufacturing costs but also on the achievement of a competitive technological advantage by which an increased market share can be gained. Recognizing this, cooperative research is continuously encouraged and co-financed by the European Union in order to strengthen the scientific and technological base of the Aeronautical Industries thus providing - among others - the technological edge needed for survival. Corresponding targets of research within Area 3, Technologies for Transport Means, and here in particular Area 3A, Aeronautics Technologies, of the Industrial and Materials Technologies Program ( Brite -EuRam III, 1994 -1998) have been identified to be aircraft efficiency, cost effectiveness and environmental impact. Concerning aircraft efficiency - relevant to the present research - a reduction in aircraft drag of 10%, a reduction in aircraft fuel consumption of 30%, and a reduction in airframe, engine and system weight of 20% are envisaged. Meeting these objectives has, of course, also a strong positive impact on the environment.

The origins of turbulent flow and the transition from laminar to turbulent flow are among the most important unsolved problems of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Besides being a fundamental question of fluid mechanics, there are any number of applications for information regarding transition location and the details of the subsequent turbulent flow. The JUT AM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, co-hosted by Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, was held in Sedona, Arizona. Although four previous JUT AM Symposia bear the same appellation (Stuttgart 1979, Novosibirsk 1984, Toulouse 1989, and Sendai 1994) the topics that were emphasized at each were different and reflect the evolving nature of our understanding of the transition process. The major contributions of Stuttgart 1979 centered on nonlinear behavior and later stages of transition in two-dimensional boundary layers. Stability of closed systems was also included with Taylor vortices in different geometries. The topics of Novosibirsk 1984 shifted to resonant wave interactions and secondary instabilities in boundary layers. Pipe- and channel-flow transition were discussed as model problems for the boundary layer. Investigations of free shear layers were presented and a heavy dose of supersonic papers appeared for the first time. The character of Toulouse 1989 was also different in that 3-D boundary layers, numerical simulations, streamwise vortices, and foundation papers on receptivity were presented. Sendai 1994 saw a number of papers on swept wings and 3-D boundary layers. Numerical simulations attacked a broader range of problems.

Results of experimental research on aerodynamic and acoustic control of subsonic turbulent jets by acoustic excitation are presented. It was demonstrated that these control methods, originated by authors, not only can intensify mixing (by acoustic irradiation at low frequency), but also notably ease it (at high-frequency irradiation). This research monograph presents the updated results of the authors supplemented by other investigations conducted in USA, Germany and Great Britain. The methods for the numerical simulation of subsonic turbulent jets under acoustic excitation are described in detail, and examples are reviewed of practical applications, including reduction of turbojet engine noise and acoustic control of self-sustained oscillations in wind tunnels.

The book describes recent developments in aeroacoustic measurements in wind tunnels and the interpretation of the resulting data. The reader will find the latest measurement techniques described along with examples of the results.

This well-written book explains the theory of spectral methods and their application to the computation of viscous incompressible fluid flows in clear and elementary terms. It begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of spectral methods and then moves on to cover, in particular, the Fourier and Chebyshev methods. Examples are included. Chapters 6 and 7 handle streamfunction-vorticity and velocity-pressure fomulations of the Navier-Stokes equations. Chapter 8 and 9 address special topics such as self- adaptive coordinate transform, treatment of singularities, and domain decomposition. The work will be useful to those teaching in the field at the graduate level, as well as to researchers working in the area.

Segregation is a pervasive phenomenon whereby a flowing granular mass consisting of particles with diverse physical properties becomes spatially inhomogeneous. In the industrial sector that deals with the handling and processing of bulk solids, this non-uniformity is highly undesirable since blend homogeneity is generally a stringent requirement of most products. In the arena of geophysical flows, segregation can enhance the destructive capabilities of natural events such as avalanches and landslides. During the last 15 years, these issues have provided motivation and fostered collaborations between the communities of mathematicians, engineers, industrial researchers, and physicists to develop predictive models of segregation by integrating the perspectives and approaches of each. The collection of unique papers brings to light many of the perplexing scientific and technical issues in our current understanding of this complex phenomenon. It addresses advances in experiment, computational modeling and theory. This volume is one of the very few books devoted entirely to problems of segregation of particulate solids.

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are a powerful tool in science, mathematics, economics and finance. This book will help the reader to master the basic theory and learn some applications of SDEs. In particular, the reader will be provided with the backward SDE technique for use in research when considering financial problems in the market, and with the reflecting SDE technique to enable study of optimal stochastic population control problems. These two techniques are powerful and efficient, and can also be applied to research in many other problems in nature, science and elsewhere.

Experts in rheology and polymer processing present up-to-date, fundamental and applied information on the rheological properties of polymers, in particular those relevant to processing, contributing to the physical understanding and the mathematical modelling of polymer processing sequences. Basic concepts of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, micro-rheological modelling and constitutive modelling are reviewed, and rheological measurements are described. Topics with practical relevance are debated, such as linear viscoelasticity, converging and diverging flows, and the rheology of multiphase systems. Approximation methods are discussed for the computer modelling of polymer melt flow. Subsequently, polymer processing technologies are studied from both simulation and engineering perspectives. Mixing, crystallization and reactive processing aspects are also included. Audience: An integrated and complete view of polymer processing and rheology, important to institutions and individuals engaged in the characterisation, testing, compounding, modification and processing of polymeric materials. Can also support academic polymer processing engineering programs.

This book describes several tractable theories for fluid flow in porous media. The important mathematical quations about structural stability and spatial decay are address. Thermal convection and stability of other flows in porous media are covered. A chapter is devoted to the problem of stability of flow in a fluid overlying a porous layer.

Nonlinear wave motion in porous media is analysed. In particular, waves in an elastic body with voids are investigated while acoustic waves in porous media are also analysed in some detail.

A chapter is enclosed on efficient numerical methods for solving eigenvalue problems which occur in stability problems for flows in porous media.

Brian Straughan is a professor at the Department of Mathemactical Sciences at Durham University, United Kingdom.

The purpose of this volume is to present a clear and systematic account of the mathematical methods of wave phenomena in solids, gases, and water that will be readily accessible to physicists and engineers. The emphasis is on developing the necessary mathematical techniques, and on showing how these mathematical concepts can be effective in unifying the physics of wave propagation in a variety of physical settings: sound and shock waves in gases, water waves, and stress waves in solids. Nonlinear effects and asymptotic phenomena will be discussed. Wave propagation in continuous media (solid, liquid, or gas) has as its foundation the three basic conservation laws of physics: conservation of mass, momentum, and energy, which will be described in various sections of the book in their proper physical setting. These conservation laws are expressed either in the Lagrangian or the Eulerian representation depending on whether the boundaries are relatively fixed or moving. In any case, these laws of physics allow us to derive the "field equations" which are expressed as systems of partial differential equations. For wave propagation phenomena these equations are said to be "hyperbolic" and, in general, nonlinear in the sense of being "quasi linear" . We therefore attempt to determine the properties of a system of "quasi linear hyperbolic" partial differential equations which will allow us to calculate the displacement, velocity fields, etc.

This book is devoted to recent developments in the field of rotating fluids, in particular the study of Taylor--Couette flow, spherical Couette flow, planar Couette flow, as well as rotating annulus flow. Besides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art, possible future directions in this research field are investigated. The first part of this volume presents several new results in the classical Taylor--Couette system covering diverse theoretical, experimental and numerical work on bifurcation theory, influence of boundary conditions, counter-rotating flows, spiral vortices and many others. The second part focuses on spherical Couette flows, including isothermal flows, thermal convective motion, as well as magnetohydrodynamics in spherical shells. The remaining parts are devoted to Goertler vortices, rotating annulus flows, as well as superfluid Couette flows. The present book will be of interest to all researchers and graduate students working actively in the field.

This book presents a new method of asymptotic analysis of boundary-layer problems, the Successive Complementary Expansion Method (SCEM). The first part is devoted to a general presentation of the tools of asymptotic analysis. It gives the keys to understand a boundary-layer problem and explains the methods to construct an approximation. The second part is devoted to SCEM and its applications in fluid mechanics, including external and internal flows.