Complex Wave Dynamics on Thin Films

Volume 14

By: Hen-Hong Chang, E. a. Demekhin

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Wave evolution on a falling film is a classical hydrodynamic instability whose rich wave dynamics have been carefully recorded in the last fifty years. Such waves are known to profoundly affect the mass and heat transfer of multi-phase industrial units.

This book describes the collective effort of both authors and their students in constructing a comprehensive theory to describe the complex wave evolution from nearly harmonic waves at the inlet to complex spatio-temporal patterns involving solitary waves downstream. The mathematical theory represents a significant breakthrough from classical linear stability theories, which can only describe the inlet harmonic waves and also extends classical soliton theory for integrable systems to real solitrary wave dynamics with dissipation. One unique feature of falling-film solitary wave dynamics, which drives much of the spatio-temporal wave evolution, is the irreversible coalescence of such localized wave structures. It represents the first full description of a hydrodynamic instability from inception to developed chaos. This approach should prove useful for other complex hydrodynamic instabilities and would allow industrial engineers to better design their multi-phase apparati by exploiting the deciphered wave dynamics. This publication gives a comprehensive review of all experimental records and existing theories and significantly advances state of the art on the subject and are complimented by complex and attractive graphics from computational fluid mechanics.

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: "Soaring and Settling"--Too Soon?	p. 2
The Cultural Approach	p. 6
Gender Revisited	p. 8
Gendering Buddhism	p. 15
Buddhism And Women	p. 21
The Second Order	p. 23
The Evolution of the Female Sanngha	p. 24
The Female Order in Japan	p. 28
The Issue of Ordination	p. 36
Sociological Context(s)38 Sorely Missed	p. 47
Nunhood and Feminism	p. 51
The Rhetoric of Subordination	p. 55
A Theodicy of Disprivilege	p. 57
The Five Obstacles and the Three Dependences	p. 62
A Case of Blood Poisoning	p. 66
Drinking from the Blood Bowl	p. 73
The "Facts" of Life	p. 79
The Red and the White	p. 81
The Rhetoric of Salvation	p. 91
The Legend of the Naga-Girl	p. 91
Becoming Male	p. 99
Interpretative Divergences	p. 103
Amida's Vow and Its Implications	p. 106
A Feminine Topos	p. 116
The Rhetoric of Equality	p. 119
Gender Equality in Mahayana	p. 120
Gender Equality in Vajrayana	p. 122
Chan/Zen Egalitarianism	p. 127
Imagining Buddhist Women	p. 143
Monks, Mothers, and Motherhood	p. 145
Bad Mothers	p. 146
The Ambivalent Mother	p. 148Mater Dol
The Forsaken Mother	p. 152
The Changing Image of Motherhood	p. 160
Varieties of Motherly Experience	p. 163
Mad Mothers	p. 167
The Law of Alliance	p. 168
Conflicting Images	p. 181
Women in the Life of the Buddha	p. 182
Queens, Empresses, and Other Impressive Ladies	p. 188
Eminent Nuns	p. 198
Femmes Fatales	p. 204
Of Women and Jewels	p. 205
Women Against Buddhism	p. 217
Crossing the Line	p. 219
The Utopian Topos	p. 222 Stopped
Kukai's Mother	p. 228
The Kekkai Stone	p. 233
Conflicting Interpretations	p. 235
The Symbolic Reading of Transgression	p. 238
The Kekkai and the Logic of Muen	p. 243
Women on the Move	p. 250
The "Nuns of Kumano"	p. 250
What's in a Name	p. 254
Down by the River	p. 261
The Monk and the Bayadegrave;re	p. 262
The Discourteous Courtesan	p. 267
Paradigms	p. 269
The Power of Women	p. 287
The Myth of Tamayorihime	p. 290
The Miko and the Monk	p. 304
Women on the Edge	p. 310
Women, Dragons, and Snakes	p. 316
Afterthoughts	p. 325
Notes	p. 341
Bibliography	p. 401
Index	p. 459
Introduction and history
Formulation and linear Orr-Sommerfeld theory
Hierarchy of model equation
Experiments and numerical simulation
Periodic and solitary wave families
Floquet theory and selection of periodic waves
Spectral theory for gKS solitary pulses
Spectral theory and drainage dynamics of realistic pulses
Pulse interaction theory
Coarsening theory for naturally excited waves
Transverse instability
Hydraulic shocks
Drop formation on a coated vertical fiber
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