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Annula review of fluid mechanics. Volume 20. (English) Zbl 0697.76009

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 20. Palo Alto, California: Annual Reviews Inc. X, 551 p.; $ 34.00 (U.S. & Canada); $ 38.00 (elsewhere) (1988).
This volume contains seventeen articles dealing with various aspects of fluid mechanics. It starts with a historical note on ‘The first turbulence measurements: a tribute to Hugh L. Dryden’ by A. M. Kuethe. The concept of ‘fractals in fluid mechanics’ utilising the ideas of scale invariance to deal with some problems of turbulence is reviewed by D. L. Turcotte. W. R. Sears and J. C. Erickson, jun. have summarized the history and some modern ideas about wind tunnel wall interference including the concept of matching inner and outer flow fields in their article on ‘Adaptive wind tunnels’. ‘Multiphase flow in porous media’ by P. M. Adler and H. Brenner deals with the contributions on initial two-phase percolation problems. The studies focussed on the migration of melt through the mantle material near the top of the hot spot are dealt by J. A. Whitehead through ‘Fluid models of geological hotspots’. O. M. Phillips discusses the various techniques of ‘Remote sensing of the sea surface’.
‘Stokesian dynamics’ dealing with particles of different geometrical shapes in suspensions and the connected simulation studies have been presented by J. F. Brady and G. Bossis. The processes characterized by strong unsteadiness in their development and by the existence of a contact line between the free surface of the solid body surface are discussed in the article ‘Initial stage of water impact’ by K. A. Korobkin and V. V. Pukhanachov. The studies connected with solar and steller magnetism have been presented by D. W. Hughes and M. R. E. Procter in their paper entitled ‘Magnetic fields in the solar convection zone: magnetic convection and magnetic buoyancy’. R. Salmon reviews the recent application of the methods of Hamiltonian mechanics to the problems in fluid dynamics. The main points of developments, results and unsolved problems in the field of ‘Surf-zone dynamics’ are brought out in the review by J. A. Battjes. The importance of newly developed instruments and new field measurements are discussed in ‘Sand transport on Continental shelf’ by K. R. Dyer and R. L. Soulsby.
The current theories providing the characterization of the structure and rheology of foams are explained by A. M. Kraynik in ‘Foam flows’. ‘Instability mechanisms in shear flow transition’ by B. J. Bayly, S. A. Orszag and T. Herbert deals with various aspects observed in turbulent shear flows. The significant strides that have been made in the last ten years on the topic of fluid/compliant surface interactions are presented in ‘Compliant coatings’ by J. J. Riley, M. Gad-el-Hak and R. W. Metcalfe. L. Hesselink explains the use of digital computers in greatly enhancing the usefulness of flow visualization in his paper entitled ‘digital image processing in flow visualization’. The last article on ‘Secondary instability of boundary layers’ by T. Herbert deals with the important progress in the exploration of the three dimensional aspects of transition in boundary layers in the past decade.
Reviewer: A. Ramachandra Rao

MSC:

76-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to fluid mechanics
00B15 Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest

Biographic References:

Dryden , Hugh L.
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