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Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume One

Overview and Fundamentals

Herausgeber: Fernando, Harindra Joseph

Beschreibung

The Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics presents the basic principles, fundamental flow processes, modeling techniques, and measurement methods used in the field, along with critical discussions of environmental sustainability related to engineering aspects. This first volume emphasizes the close relevance of environmental fluid dy

Autor

Harindra Joseph Shermal Fernando is the Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary affiliation in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and a concurrent appointment in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a UNESCO Team Gold Medal (1979), Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF, 1986), and Rieger Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award in Environmental Sciences (2001). He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Physical Society, and American Meteorological Society and was elected to the European Academy in 2009. He serves on the editorial boards of Applied Mechanics Reviews (associate editor), Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (editor, 1997-), IAHR Journal of Hydro-Environment (associate editor), Physics of Fluids (associate editor) and EGS Journal of Non-Linear Processes in Geophysics (editor). He is also the editor in chief of the Journal of Environmental Fluid Dynamics. Professor Fernando has published more than 225 papers spanning nearly 50 international peer-reviewed journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 213mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1724g
• ISBN-13: 9781439816691
• ISBN-10: 1439816697
• Artikelnr.: 37186510