RecordNumber
60064
Author
Pierini, Stefano,
Uni. Title
Fluidodinamica delloceano e dellʹatmosfera English
Title
Oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics
Author Statement
Stefano Pierini
Publication
Springer
Publication Year
2025
Collation
1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) illustrations (chiefly color)
Series
UNITEXT for physics
Notes
978-3-031-77991-6 , Includes bibliographical references , 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 Kelvins circulation theorem -- Bibliography , Translated from Italian
Subject
Fluid dynamics , Ocean-atmosphere interaction
ADDED ENTRIES
CO Ohio Library and Information Network , SE UNITEXT for physics , TI
LC Class
QC
LC Number
809
LC CutterNumber
.F5
LC Date
2025