| Scaling Contributor(s): Barenblatt, Grigory Isaakovich (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521826578 ISBN-13: 9780521826570 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $132.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Applied - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational - Mathematics | Graphic Methods |
| Dewey: 530.159 |
| LCCN: 2004299345 |
| Series: Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity, G. Barenblatt describes the art of discovering scaling laws. He demonstrates the concepts of intermediate asymptotics and the renormalization group as natural consequences of self-similarity and shows how and when these tools can tackle the task at hand, and when they cannot. Based on courses taught to undergraduate and graduate students, the book can also be used independently by biologists, chemists, astronomers, engineers and geoscientists. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barenblatt, Grigory Isaakovich: - G. I. Barenblatt is Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Principal Scientist in the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. |