Waves and Nonlinear Processes in Hydrodynamics
In December 1994 Professor Enok Palm celebrated his 70th birthday and retired after more than forty years of service at the University of Oslo. In view of his outstanding achievements as teacher and scientist a symposium entitled "Waves and Nonlinear Proc
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FLUID MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS Volume 34 Series Editor:
R. MOREAU MADYlAM Ecole Nationale Superieure d' Hydraulique de Grenoble BOlte Postale 95 38402 Saint Martin d' Heres Cedex, France
Aims and Scope of the Series
The purpose of this series is to focus on subjects in which fluid mechanics plays a fundamental role. As well as the more traditional applications of aeronautics, hydraulics, heat and mass transfer etc., books will be published dealing with topics which are currently in a state of rapid development, such as turbulence, suspensions and multiphase fluids, super and hypersonic flows and numerical modelling techniques. It is a widely held view that it is the interdisciplinary subjects that will receive
intense scientific attention, bringing them to the forefront of technological advancement. Fluids have the ability to transport matter and its properties as well as transmit force, therefore fluid mechanics is a subject that is particulary open to cross fertilisation with other sciences and disciplines of engineering. The subject of fluid mechanics will be highly relevant in domains such as chemical, metallurgical, biological and ecological engineering. This series is particularly open to such new multidisciplinary domains. The median level of presentation is the first year graduate student. Some texts are monographs defining the current state of a field; others are accessible to fmal year undergraduates; but essentially the emphasis is on readability and clarity.
For a list a/related mechanics titles, see final pages.
Waves and Nonlinear Processes in Hydrodynamics Edited by
JOHNGRUE Department ofMathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
BJ0RN GJEVIK Department ofMathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
and JAN ERIK WEBER Department ojGeophysics, University QfOslo, Norway
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ISBN-I 3:978-94-010-6597-9 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-0253-4
e-ISBN-13 :978-94-009-0253-4
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CONTENTS
Preface
IX
Biography of Enok Palm
Part I
Review Articles
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A Brief Historical Account of Hydrodynamic Resea
