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This highly acclaimed series provides survey articles on the present state and future direction of research in important branches of applied solid and fluid mechanics. Mechanics is defined as a branch of physics that focuses on motion and on the reaction of physical systems to internal and external forces.

Author(s): Erik van der Giesen and Theodore Y. Wu (Eds.)
Series: Advances in Applied Mechanics 37
Edition: 1
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2001

Language: English
Commentary: +OCR
Pages: 1-378

Content:
Editorial Board
Page ii

List of contributors
Page ix

Preface
Pages xi-xii

A unified theory for modeling water waves Original Research Article
Pages 1-88
Theodore Yaotsu Wu

Coastal hydrodynamics of ocean waves on beach Original Research Article
Pages 89-165
Jin E. Zhang, Theodore Y. Wu, Thomas Y. Hou

Onset of oscillatory interfacial instability and wave motions in BĂ©nard layers Original Research Article
Pages 167-238
Manuel G. Velarde, Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy, Marcel Hennenberg

Role of cryogenic helium in classical fluid dynamics: Basic research and model testing Original Research Article
Pages 239-276
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Russell J. Donnelly

Recent advances in applications of tensor functions in continuum mechanics Original Research Article
Pages 277-364
Josef Betten

Author index
Pages 365-372

Subject index
Pages 373-378