Thermofluid Dynamics

This book gathers ten thermofluid dynamics problems involving the use of analytical solutions. All these problems have been encountered by the author during his research activity; some of the solutions are his own contributions, while others either are classic literature results or can be derived from them. The physical phenomena involved range from pure hydrodynamics to flow with heat or mass transfer, two-phase flow, and magnetohydrodynamics. The problems discussed are not canonical problems; they are rarely found in textbooks, and often exhibit surprising, or even paradoxical, solutions. The potential readership of the book includes students, teachers and scientists in science and engineering interested in fluid dynamics and heat/mass transfer: to them it may offer food for thought, suggestions for lectures or tutorials and ideas for further original developments.

Serves as a reference & teaching tool for researchers and graduate students Includes topics such as hydrodynamics, two-phase flow, heat or mass transfer, and magnetohydrodynamics Compares pros/cons of numerical versus analytical solutions

Autorentext

Michele Ciofalo è stato professore di termoidraulica e termofluidodinamica all'Università di Palermo.

Inhalt

Solid bodies approaching each other in a viscous fluid.- Velocity and displacement of spherical particles subjected only to drag.- Flow through parallel channels separated by a permeable wall.- Laminar oscillatory flow in a plane channel.- Nusselt number in channel flow with general thermal boundary conditions.- Buoyant flow in a duct or a loop.- Stability of two-phase flow in a heated duct.- Heat transfer in spray cooling as an inverse problem.- Apparent Sherwood number in mass transfer with wall transpiration.- One-dimensional mixed MHD convection.