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028 _aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD.
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_d;12/09/2018
082 _a530.15 BAR
100 _aG I Barenblatt
245 _aScaling, self-similarity, and intermediate asymptotics
_c/G I Barenblatt
260 _aCambridge ; New York
_b: Cambridge University Press
_c, ©1996.
300 _axv, 386 pages
_b: illustrations
_c ; 24 cm.
365 _b3930
490 _aCambridge texts in applied mathematics, 14.
505 _a Introduction -- 1. Dimensions, dimensional analysis and similarity -- 2. The construction of intermediate-asymptotic solutions using dimensional analysis. 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. A recipe for the application of similarity analysis -- 6. Scaling and transformation groups. Renormalization group -- 7. Self-similar solutions and travelling waves -- 8. Invariant solutions: asymptotic conservation laws, spectrum of eigenvalues, and stability -- 9. Scaling in the deformation and fracture of solids -- 10. Scaling in turbulence -- 11. Scaling in geophysical fluid dynamics -- 12. Scaling: miscellaneous special problems.
520 _aPublisher Description (unedited publisher data) Counter 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
650 _aPhysics
655 _aMathematical physics
_bDifferential equations--Asymptotic theory
700 _aG I Barenblatt
942 _cBOOK
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