Thermal Convection

Patterns, Evolution and Stability

Marcello Lappa (MARS)

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English

John Wiley & Sons Inc
29 December 2009

Thermochemistry & chemical thermodynamics; Engineering thermodynamics

Thermal Convection - Patterns, Stages of Evolution and Stability Behavior provides the reader with an ensemble picture of the subject, illustrating the state-of-the-art and providing the researchers from universities and industry with a basis on which they are able to estimate the possible impact of a variety of parameters. Unlike earlier books on the subject, the heavy mathematical background underlying and governing the behaviors illustrated in the text are kept to a minimum.

The text clarifies some still unresolved controversies pertaining to the physical nature of the dominating driving force responsible for asymmetric/oscillatory convection in various natural phenomena and/or technologically important processes and can help researchers in elaborating and validating new, more complex models, in accelerating the current trend towards predictable and reproducible natural phenomena and in establishing an adequate scientific foundation to industrial processes.

Thermal Convection - Patterns, Stages of Evolution and Stability Behavior is intended as a useful reference guide for specialists in disciplines such as the metallurgy and foundry field and researchers and scientists who are now coordinating their efforts to improve the quality of semiconductor or macromolecular crystals. The text may also be of use to organic chemists and materials scientists, atmosphere and planetary physicists, as well as an advanced level text for students taking part in courses on the physics of fluids, fluid mechanics, the behavior and evolution of non-linear systems, environmental phenomena and materials engineering.

By: Marcello Lappa (MARS)
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 1.302kg
ISBN: 9780470699942
ISBN 10: 0470699949
Pages: 690
Publication Date: 29 December 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Marcello Lappa is Senior Researcher at the Microgravity Advanced Research and Support Center. He has approximately 100 publications (the majority as a single author) in the fields of fluid motion and stability behavior (thermogravitational, thermocapillary, thermovibrational and magnetic convection), organic and inorganic materials sciences and crystal growth, multiphase flows, solidification, biotechnology and biomechanics, methods of numerical analysis in computational fluid dynamics and heat/mass transfer, high performance computing (parallel machines). He is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing (ISSN 1555-256X). He has worked as a visiting scientist and professor at the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering - Division of Advanced Device Materials in Japan (Kyushu University). Over recent years he has been involved in many industrial projects and, in particular, in the preparation of the ground and flight operations for the Fluid Science Laboratory (FSL) that will operate on-orbit within the Columbus Module of the International Space Station by the half of 2008.

Reviews for Thermal Convection: Patterns, Evolution and Stability

In our opinion, this book will be useful for experts in fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and applied mathematics, as well as physicists and engineers. The book can be used also by graduate students. (Mathematical Reviews, 2012) Undoubtedly, the book can be considered as a mandatory reading for everybody whose research involves thermal convection effects. . . For experts it offers a good overview of the current status of hot problems in thermal convection. The book can be strongly recommended for MSc and PhD students whose research includes thermal convection problems, as well as to engineers whose projects involve nonisothermal buoyancy- and thermocapillary-driven flows. (Cryst. Res. Technol, 2011) Despite the word convection appearing in the title, this excellent monograph is not a book on heat transfer . . . Otherwise, this is an excellent text which I recommend for those seriously interested in thermally driven convection. (Computational Thermal Sciences, 2011) It represents the most comprehensive single volume monograph on convection phenomena available at the present time. I am glad to have the book on my shelf and I will recommend it to anyone with interest in convection as an inspiring guide through its myriad manifestations. (Radostin D. Simitev, October 2010) This excellent monograph will be warmly welcomed by university teachers and researchers working in the field of thermal convection, and it will be useful for graduate students looking for a short way from basic notions to the current state of the art in that field. (European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, September 2010) It is a treasure-trove of phenomenological details ordered in a systematic way. It represents the most comprehensive single-volume monograph on convection phenomena available at the present time. I am glad to have the book on my shelf and I will recommend it to anyone with interest in convection as an inspiring guide through its myriad manifestations. (Journal of Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, February 2011)