Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Video resources
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Instabilities of fluids at rest
- 3 Stability of open flows: basic ideas
- 4 Inviscid instability of parallel flows
- 5 Viscous instability of parallel flows
- 6 Instabilities at low Reynolds number
- 7 Avalanches, ripples, and dunes
- 8 Nonlinear dynamics of systems with few degrees of freedom
- 9 Nonlinear dispersive waves
- 10 Nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems
- 11 Dynamical systems and bifurcations
- Appendix A The Saint-Venant equations
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Video resources
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Instabilities of fluids at rest
- 3 Stability of open flows: basic ideas
- 4 Inviscid instability of parallel flows
- 5 Viscous instability of parallel flows
- 6 Instabilities at low Reynolds number
- 7 Avalanches, ripples, and dunes
- 8 Nonlinear dynamics of systems with few degrees of freedom
- 9 Nonlinear dispersive waves
- 10 Nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems
- 11 Dynamical systems and bifurcations
- Appendix A The Saint-Venant equations
- References
- Index
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- Hydrodynamic Instabilities , pp. 1 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011