Scaling, Self-similarity, and Intermediate Asymptotics
Dimensional Analysis and Intermediate Asymptotics
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- Author: Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: December 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521435222
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Scaling laws reveal the fundamental property of phenomena, namely self-similarity - repeating in time and/or space - which substantially simplifies the mathematical modelling of the phenomena themselves. This book begins from a non-traditional exposition of dimensional analysis, physical similarity theory, and general theory of scaling phenomena, using classical examples to demonstrate that the onset of scaling is not until the influence of initial and/or boundary conditions has disappeared but when the system is still far from equilibrium. Numerous examples from a diverse range of fields, including theoretical biology, fracture mechanics, atmospheric and oceanic phenomena, and flame propagation, are presented for which the ideas of scaling, intermediate asymptotics, self-similarity, and renormalisation were of decisive value in modelling.
Read more- Multiple examples from various disciplines
- Close link with such modern concepts of applied mathematics and theoretical physics as fractals, renormalization group
- A practical guide to similarity analysis of new phenomena
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'A splendid and very readable work … Greatly recommended!' Sjoerd Rienstra, ITW Nieuws
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- Date Published: December 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521435222
- length: 412 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Dimensions, dimensional analysis and similarity
2. The application of dimensional analysis to the construction of intermediate asymptotic solutions to problems of mathematical physics. Self-similar solutions
3. Self-similarities of the second kind: first examples
4. Self-similarities of the second kind: further examples
5. Classification of similarity rules and self-similarity solutions. Recipe for application of similarity analysis
6. Scaling and transformation groups. Renormalization groups. 7. Self-similar solutions and travelling waves
8. Invariant solutions: special problems of the theory
9. Scaling in deformation and fracture in solids
10. Scaling in turbulence
11. Scaling in geophysical fluid dynamics
12. Scaling: miscellaneous special problems.
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