Shock Waves & Explosions

P.L. Sachdev, Alan Jeffrey (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), Haim Brezis

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English

Chapman & Hall/CRC
24 October 2019

Mathematics; Discrete mathematics; Combinatorics & graph theory; Applied mathematics; Mechanical engineering; Mechanics of fluids

Series: Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics

Understanding the causes and effects of explosions is important to experts in a broad range of disciplines, including the military, industrial and environmental research, aeronautic engineering, and applied mathematics.

Offering an introductory review of historic research, Shock Waves and Explosions brings analytic and computational methods to a wide audience in a clear and thorough way. Beginning with an overview of the research on combustion and gas dynamics in the 1970s and 1980s, the author brings you up to date by covering modeling techniques and asymptotic and perturbative methods and ending with a chapter on computational methods.

Most of the book deals with the mathematical analysis of explosions, but computational results are also included wherever they are available. Historical perspectives are provided on the advent of nonlinear science, as well as on the mathematical study of the blast wave phenomenon, both when visualized as a point explosion and when simulated as the expansion of a high-pressure gas.

This volume clearly reveals the ingenuity of the human mind to conceptualize, model, and mathematically analyze highly complicated nonlinear phenomena such as nuclear explosions. It presents a solid foundation of knowledge that encourages further research and original ideas.

By: P.L. Sachdev
Series edited by: Alan Jeffrey (University of Newcastle upon Tyne UK), Haim Brezis
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780367394172
ISBN 10: 0367394170
Series: Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 24 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sachdev, P.L.

Reviews for Shock Waves & Explosions

""The historical treatment of the subject is, in my opinion, extremely interesting and at U.S. $100 the book is well worth reading."" - SIAM Review ""The mathematics of explosions has spawned many original ideas in the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations, and this book shows that it remains a very fruitful topic of study and research."" -Zentralblatt MATH