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Low-Gravity Fluid Dynamics and Transport Phenomena (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics) [Hardcover]

Jean N. Koster (Author), Robert L. Sani (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0930403746 | ISBN-13: 978-0930403744 | Publication Date: August 1990

This book provides the community with a concise volume covering fluid mechanics and transport phenomena in a variety of research fields of low-gravity science. It combines an educational goal to report relevant and archival information with the latest scientific insight and current knowledge in the field.

The authors' special effort makes this volume a required compendium for the bookshelves of the microgravity scientist, space-processing researcher, and engineering manager.

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The authors' special effort makes this volume a required compendium for the bookshelves of the microgravity scientist, space-processing researcher, and engineering manager.

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Hardcover: 750 pages
Publisher: Amer Inst of Aeronautics & (August 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0930403746
ISBN-13: 978-0930403744
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,827,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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cyclohexane droplets, lead containing tin, nonboiling convection, surface superheat, given basic state, liquid temperature distribution, monotone modes, interfacial solute concentration, demixing rate, finger convection, mass fraction field, unmodulated case, monotectic alloys, methanol droplets, solidifying interface, energy stability theory, inverted bifurcation, demixing behavior, cellulosic fuels, screen weave, gravity modulation, nucleate boiling process, demixing kinetics, levitated drops, free fluid surface

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New York, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Crystal Growth, European Symposium, Metallurgical Transactions, European Space Agency Rept, The Combustion Institute, Van Alstine, Physics of Fluids, Acta Metallurgica, Journal of Heat Transfer, Physicochemical Hydrodynamics, Jet Propulsion Lab, Journal of Applied Physics, Acta Astronautica, American Chemical Society, International Colloquium, Journal of Chromatography, Selected Papers, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Lewis Research Center, Physical Review, The Netherlands, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Biophysica Acta

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This book cites 99 books:

Fluid Mechanics (5th Edition) by J. F. Douglas on page 512, page 594, and page 595
Buoyancy Effects in Fluids (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics) by J. S. Turner on page 174, page 366, and page 382
British Columbia by Bill Brooks on page 599, page 603, and page 618
Crystal growth (International series on the science of the solid state) on page 384, and page 436
Fluid Mechanics, Second Edition: Volume 6 (Course of Theoretical Physics) by L D Landau on page 269, and page 697

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