Fernando Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume One

Overview and Fundamentals
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1670-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 624 Seiten

With major implications for applied physics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, the rapidly growing area of environmental fluid dynamics focuses on the interactions of human activities, environment, and fluid motion. A landmark for the field, the two-volume Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics presents the basic principles, fundamental flow processes, modeling techniques, and measurement methods used in the study of environmental motions. It also offers critical discussions of environmental sustainability related to engineering.
The handbook features 81 chapters written by 135 renowned researchers from around the world. Covering environmental, policy, biological, and chemical aspects, it tackles important cross-disciplinary topics such as sustainability, ecology, pollution, micrometeorology, and limnology.
Volume One: Overview and Fundamentals provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles. It starts with general topics that emphasize the relevance of environmental fluid dynamics research in society, public policy, infrastructure, quality of life, security, and the law. It then discusses established and emerging focus areas. The volume also examines the sub-mesoscale flow processes and phenomena that form the building blocks of environmental motions, with emphasis on turbulent motions and their role in heat, momentum, and species transport.
As communities face existential challenges posed by climate change, rapid urbanization, and scarcity of water and energy, the study of environmental fluid dynamics becomes increasingly relevant. This volume is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and policymakers working to better understand the fundamentals of environmental motions and how they affect and are influenced by anthropogenic activities.
See also Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Two-Volume Set and Volume Two: Systems, Pollution, Modeling, and Measurements.

Zielgruppe

Researchers, graduate students, policy makers, and other professionals working in environmental engineering, energy, environmental sciences, physics, oceanography, meteorology, and related areas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fernando, Harindra Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Strömungslehre
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Overview and General Topics

Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Harindra Joseph Shermal Fernando

Research in EFD and Its Policy Implications
Julian Hunt

Interdisciplinary Dynamics in EFD Research
Eric R. Pardyjak and Jessica L. Thompson

Climate Change and Its Effects on Environmental Fluid Systems
Huei-Ping Huang

Sustainability Implications
B. Karney and S.K. Venayagamoorthy

Air Quality and Management
Sang-Mi Lee

Forecasting and Management of Coastal Water Quality
Joseph H.W. Lee, Ken T.M. Wong, and K.W. Choi

Soil and Aquifer Management
Hillel Rubin

Security and Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Malcolm J. Andrews, Fernando F. Ginstein, Edward Kwicklis, and Rodman Linn

Large-Scale Disasters
Mohamed Gad-el-Hak

Risk Assessment
C.L. Winter and D.M. Tartakovsky

Environmental Law
Patrick J. Paul

Part II Focus Areas for Study of Natural Systems

Physical Limnology
A. Wüest and M. Schmid

Microbial and Ecological Fluid Dynamics
Miki Hondzo

Micro- and Nano-Scale Flows Relevant to the Environment
Howard A. Stone

Volcanic Flows
J.H. Fink and A.B. Clarke

Buoyant Outflows to the Coastal Ocean
Pablo Huq

Hydrodynamics of Coastal Circulation
D. Haidvogel and R. Chant

Ice Dynamics and Transport
Steven F. Daly and Robert Ettema

Part III Fundamental Flow Phenomena and Turbulence

Turbulence in the Environment
G.N. Ivey

Turbulent Dispersion
Benoit Cushman-Roisin

Stratified Hydraulics
Peter G. Baines

Hydraulics of Vegetated Canopies
Iehisa Nezu and Taka-aki Okamoto

Canopy Turbulence
E.G. Patton and J.J. Finnigan

Jets and Plumes
Scott A. Socolofsky, Tobias Bleninger, and Robert L. Doneker

Stratified Wakes and Their Signatures
S.I. Voropayev

Gravity Currents and Intrusions
Marius Ungarish

Internal Gravity Waves
Bruce R. Sutherland

Rotation Effects in Environmental Flows
Peter A. Davies and Yakun Guo

Vortex Dynamics
G.J.F. van Heijst

Surface Waves in Coastal Waters
Chiang C. Mei

Drops and Bubbles in the Environment
Lydia Bourouiba and John W.M. Bush

Particle-Laden Flows
S. Balachandar

Sediment Transport
Jørgen Fredsøe

Flows Involving Phase Change
Herbert E. Huppert and M. Grae Worster

Turbulent Gas Transfer across Air–Water Interfaces
Satoru Komori

Convection
Jaywant H. Arakeri

Convection (Rotating Fluids)
Robert E. Ecke

Double-Diffusive Instabilities
Ruby Krishnamurty

Shallow Shear Flows in Surface Water
M.S. Ghidaoui and M.Y. Lam

Shallow Granular Flows
O. Bokhove and A.R. Thornton

Turbidity Currents and Powder Snow Avalanches
Eckart Meiburg, Jim McElwaine, and Ben Kneller

Mechanics of Debris Flows and Rock Avalanches
Richard M. Iverson

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harindra Joseph Shermal Fernando is the Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary affiliation in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and a concurrent appointment in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a UNESCO Team Gold Medal (1979), Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF, 1986), and Rieger Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award in Environmental Sciences (2001). He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Physical Society, and American Meteorological Society and was elected to the European Academy in 2009. He serves on the editorial boards of Applied Mechanics Reviews (associate editor), Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (editor, 1997–), IAHR Journal of Hydro-Environment (associate editor), Physics of Fluids (associate editor) and EGS Journal of Non-Linear Processes in Geophysics (editor). He is also the editor in chief of the Journal of Environmental Fluid Dynamics. Professor Fernando has published more than 225 papers spanning nearly 50 international peer-reviewed journals.