Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces

Description:

The second edition of this successful textbook still focusses on the concept of "environmental interface" defined as a surface between two abiotic or biotic systems, in relative motion and exchanging mass, heat and momentum through biophysical and/or chemical processes. In this second edition, chapters are updated and five new chapters have been added to make the coverage of the subject area complete. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in environmental sciences, civil engineering and environmental engineering, (geo)physics, atmospheric science, meteorology, limnology, oceanography, and applied mathematics.

Review Quotes:

"After reading this book, I rate it to be an extremely useful tool to keep on a bookshelf, both for occasional checks for concepts or data and as study and reading material for graduate and postgraduate researchers. The editors and the authors are to be commended for their effort to create a conceptual order and study path in the vast thematic area of fluid processes at environmental interfaces."
Andrea Marion, University of Podova, Italy, in: Journal of Hydraulic Research Vol. 52, No. 4 (2014), pp. 580-581

"Overall, the text is an excellent treatment of the fluid mechanics of interfaces within the hydrosphere and the atmosphere. The monograph reads well as a cohesive text, providing insight to the student and the scholar. The book will make an excellent addition to the student's or the researcher's library. I look forward to applying the text the next time I teach environmental fluid mechanics; it will significantly improve my treatment of exchange at all boundaries of fluid flows."
Scott A. Socolofsky, College Station, TX, USA, in: European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids 45 (2014) 89