Introduces hydrodynamics to undergraduate students in physics and astrophysics.
Stellar winds are a common phenomenon in the life of stars, from the dwarfs like the Sun to the red giants and hot supergiants, constituting one of the basic aspects of modern astrophysics. Stellar winds are a hydrodynamic phenomenon in which circumstellar gases expand towards the interstellar medium. This book presents an elementary introduction to the fundamentals of hydrodynamics with an application to the study of stellar winds. The principles of hydrodynamics have many other applications, so that the book can be used as an introduction to hydrodynamics for students of physics, astrophysics and other related areas.
Author(s): Walter J. Maciel (auth.)
Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 178
City: São Paulo
Tags: Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Fluid- and Aerodynamics
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
The Continuity Equation....Pages 1-13
The Euler Equation....Pages 15-38
The Equation of State....Pages 39-46
The Energy Equation....Pages 47-63
Cartesian Tensor Notation....Pages 65-77
Fluid Equations in Tensor Form....Pages 79-85
The Navier-Stokes Equation....Pages 87-96
Sound Waves....Pages 97-108
Shock Waves....Pages 109-125
Stellar Winds: An Overview....Pages 127-156
Back Matter....Pages 157-178
