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With the amazing advances of scientific research, Hydrodynamics - Theory and Application presents the engineering applications of hydrodynamics from many countries around the world. A wide range of topics are covered in this book, including the theoretical, experimental, and numerical investigations on various subjects related to hydrodynamic problems. The book consists of twelve chapters, each of which is edited separately and deals with a specific topic. The book is intended to be a useful reference to the readers who are working in this field.

Materials science. --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- Hydraulics & pneumatics

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Sediment transport is a significant part of the scientific area of river hydraulics. Therefore, the first section of the present book presents effects of sediment transport on hydraulic structures, that concern alluvial channel hydraulics. The second section refers to a serious consequence of river sediment transport, namely reservoir sedimentation. Sediment transported in a river originates from the corresponding basin, that is eroded by rainfall water. Hence, the quantification of soil erosion is also addressed in the second section. While soil erosion is the original physical process that causes reservoir sedimentation, the latter process may increase coastal erosion in case that the river feeding the reservoir, discharges its water into the sea. So, the effect of reservoir sedimentation on coastal erosion is further treated in the second section. Finally, the third section of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of local scour around bridge piers, in particular the conditions of ice cover.

Hydraulic engineering. --- Sediment transport. --- Hydraulic structures. --- Fluvial sediment transport --- Stream sediment transport --- Transport, Sediment --- Erosion --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Hydraulic engineering --- Structural engineering --- Hydraulics & pneumatics

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The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences that are more inclusive of diverse knowledges and abilities. Drawing on multiple disciplines—including rhetoric and composition, performance studies, anthropology, history, and information science—the contributors to Digital Sound Studies bring digital humanities and sound studies into productive conversation while probing the assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academic life. In so doing, they explore how sonic experience might transform our scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive.

Digital humanities. --- Sound --- Sound. --- Sound in mass media. --- Mass media --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Digital audio --- Digital sound recording --- Digital electronics --- Humanities --- Recording and reproducing --- Digital techniques. --- Data processing --- Information technology --- Music --- Sound Studies --- Digital Humanities --- Digital Pedagogy --- Media --- Technology

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This open access book is an introduction for the lay reader to understand the basics of flight. The exposure is to the mysteries of lift generation by wings and the basic function of the jet propulsion engine. The text relies on simple descriptions of the physics of air flow without unduly involving mathematics. The text is richly illustrated with sketches and photographs to enrich verbal descriptions. The book takes the viewpoint that a reader does not have a background in the engineering of airplane components but is interested in the subject. The description is in terms of easy-to-understand terminology, occasional use of humor, references to everyday experiences, and occasionally to an algebraic relationship when that is unavoidable. This book would serve a student aspiring to be an engineer to begin grappling with the phenomena involved and the techniques used to analyze these phenomena. The practitioner, as well as the beginner, in the art of flying an airplane is well served with the knowledge exposed here. The text makes no apology for technical complexity. Its introduction is rigorous and provides a sound footing for further study.

Aerodynamics. --- Aeronautics. --- Aviation. --- Communication and traffic --- Aerodynamics --- Airships --- Astronautics --- Balloons --- Flight --- Flying-machines --- Aerostation --- Air navigation --- Aviation --- Dynamics --- Fluid dynamics --- Gas dynamics --- Pneumatics --- Aeronautics --- Wind tunnels --- Aerodynamics, Subsonic --- Airplanes --- Streamlining --- Subsonic aerodynamics --- Jet propulsion --- Wings --- Jet engine --- Wing aerodynamics --- Inlets and nozzles --- Open Access

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Modern societies have concerns about growing annoyance due to noise in private dwellings and in commercial worksites. People are exposed to the noise from neighbours, adjacent offices and road traffic which causes disturbance in sleep, physical or mental work impairments. Though ISO (International Standards Organization) provides sound insulation guidelines to protect citizens from the noise exposures, these guidelines do not provide an optimal acoustic satisfaction especially for specific sounds, for example a conversation varying in intelligibility. This work addresses the challenges in traditional sound insulation models, filters and auralization techniques, and establishes an interface between psychoacoustic research and building acoustics in audio-visual VR environments. Improvements are made in sound insulation prediction methods, filters construction and rendering techniques for sound insulation auralization. The virtual building acoustic framework (VBA) is developed toward real-time interactive audio-visual technology, to be able to introduce more realism and, hence, contextual features into psychoacoustic experiments. Listening experiments close to real-life situations are carried which showed that the VBA can be used as an alternate to design test paradigms which help to better analyse and interpret the noise impacts in built-up environments situations depending on the actual activities.

Hearing. --- Psychoacoustics --- Soundproofing --- Noise --- Virtual reality. --- Virtual reality in architecture. --- Sound. --- Psychological aspects. --- virtual building acoustics --- psychoacoustic experiments --- acoustics --- Acoustics. --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Environments, Virtual --- Virtual environments --- Virtual worlds --- Computer simulation --- Reality --- Architecture --- Insulation (Sound) --- Sound --- Sound insulation --- Absorption of sound --- Acoustical engineering --- Noise control --- Psychophysics --- Audition (Physiology) --- Physiological acoustics --- Bioacoustics --- Senses and sensation --- Audiology --- Auditory pathways --- Deafness --- Ear --- Listening --- Psychology --- Insulation --- Psychoacoustics. --- Soundproofing.