Waves in fluids

Author(s)

• Lighthill, M. J., Sir

Bibliographic Information

Waves in fluids

James Lighthill

Cambridge University Press, 1978

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 470-486

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A comprehensive textbook in which the author describes the science of waves in liquids and gases. Drawing on a subject of enormous extent and variety, he provides his readers with a thorough analysis of the most important and representative types of waves including sound waves, shock waves, water waves of all kinds, and the so-called internal waves (inside atmospheres and oceans) due to intensity stratification. Emphasis throughout is on the most generally useful fundamental ideas of wave science, including the principles of how waves interact with flows. This standard work on one of the great subdivisions of the dynamics of fluids, is lucidly written and will be invaluable to engineers, physicists, geophysicists, applied mathematicians or any research worker concerned with wave motions or fluid flows. It is especially suitable as a textbook for courses at the final-year undergraduate or graduate level.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Prologue
• 1. Sound waves
• 2. One-dimensional waves in fluids
• 3. Water waves
• 4. Internal waves
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Notation list
• Author index
• Subject index.

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Details

• NCID: BA07572527
• ISBN:
  • 0521216893
  • 0521292336
• LCCN: 77008174
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 504 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC157
  • DC : 532/.0593
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Waves
  • LCSH : Fluid dynamics
  • LCSH : Wave-motion, Theory of