The Nobel Laureate's monumental study surveys hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability as a branch of experimental physics. Among the subjects treated: thermal instability of a layer of fluid heated from below, the Benard problem, stability of Couette flow, and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
| ISBN: | 9780486640716 |
| Publication date: | 28th March 2003 |
| Author: | S Chandrasekhar |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 652 pages |
| Series: | Dover Books on Physics |
| Genres: |
Physics |