Analytical and Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation in Fluid Media

Download or read book Analytical and Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation in Fluid Media written by K Murawski and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-11-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys analytical and numerical techniques appropriate to the description of fluid motion with an emphasis on the most widely used techniques exhibiting the best performance. Analytical and numerical solutions to hyperbolic systems of wave equations are the primary focus of the book. In addition, many interesting wave phenomena in fluids are considered using examples such as acoustic waves, the emission of air pollutants, magnetohydrodynamic waves in the solar corona, solar wind interaction with the planet venus, and ion-acoustic solitons. Contents:Mathematical Description of FluidsLinear WavesModel Equations for Weakly Nonlinear WavesAnalytical Methods for Solving the Classical Model Wave EquationsNumerical Methods for a Scalar Hyperbolic EquationsReview of Numerical Methods for Model Wave EquationsNumerical Schemes for a System of One-Dimensional Hyperbolic EquationsA Hyperbolic System of Two-Dimensional EquationsNumerical Methods for the MHD EquationsNumerical Experiments Readership: Researchers in applied and pure mathematics as well as computational and mathematical physics. Keywords:Reviews:“This book tries to fill the gap in the literature by considering together analytical and numerical approaches. The main attention is paid to the wave solutions of the quasi-hyperbolic systems appearing in fluids, plasma, and astrophysics, taking into account the nonlinearity, dispersion, dissipation and randomness of media … It can be useful for students studying the modeling of the wave processes in fluids, plasma and astrophysics.”Professor Efim Pelinovsky Russian Academy of Sciences “The book will be of interest to readers intending to enter this field, and it contains an extensive bibliography that will be useful for readers wishing to widen their study of these topics.”Mathematics Abstracts “I found the book to be very thorough in its description of methods, and the difficulties faced in solving hyperbolic problems … overall I was impressed with this book, and I recommend it as an excellent review source.”Mathematical Reviews