Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Dimensional analysis and physical similarity -- 2. Self-similarity and intermediate asymptotics -- 3. Scaling laws and self-similar solutions that cannot be obtained by dimensional analysis -- 4. Complete and incomplete similarity: Self-similar solutions of the first and second kind -- 5. Scaling and transformation groups: Renormalization group -- 6. Self-similar phenomena and travelling waves -- 7. Scaling laws and fractals -- 8. Scaling laws for turbulent wall-bounded shear flows at very large Reynolds numbers
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In this work, the author describes and teaches the art of discovering scaling laws, starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity