Theory and Applications of Viscous Fluid Flows (Paperback)

This book is the natural sequel to the study of nonviscous fluid flows pre- sented in our recent book entitled Theory and Applications of Nonviscous Fluid Flows and published in 2002 by the Physics Editorial Department of Springer-Verlag (ISBN 3-540-41412-6 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York). The physical concept of viscosity (for so-called real fluids ) is associated both incompressible and compressible fluids. Consequently we have with a vast field of theoretical study and applications from which any subsection could have itself provided an area for a single book. It was however decided to attempt aglobaI study so that each chapter serves as an introduction to more specialized study and the book as a whole presents a necessary broad foundation for furt her study in depth. Consequently this volume contains many more pages than my preceding book devoted to nonviscous fluid flows and a large number (80) of figures. There are three main models for the study of viscous fluid flows: First the model linked with viscous incompressible fluid flows the so-called (dynamic) Navier model governing linearly viscous divergenceless and homogeneous fluid flows. The second is the sü-called Navier-Stokes model (NS) which is linked to compressible linearly viscous and isentropic equations für a polytropic viscous gas. The third is the so-called Navier-Stokes-Fourier model (NSF) that gov- erns the motion of a compressible linearly viscous heat-conducting gas.