Contents
Part I: Basic Fluid Mechanics
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1 Introducing Sea Water
1.1 Water on Earth ...
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1.2 Physical and Chemical Properties of Sea Water .
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1.2.1 Sea Water Density and Related Measures.
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1.2.2 Sea Water Viscosity.
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1.2.3 Surface Tension
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1.2.4 Inorganic Salts ...
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1.2.5 Dissolved Gases . . .
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1.2.6 Concentration of Suspended Particles and Yellow Substances . . . . . . . .
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2 Water at Rest and in Motion
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2.1 Introduction . .
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2.1.1 Coordinates System .
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2.2 Water at Rest: Hydrostatics
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2.2.1 Pressure Distribution in Water
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2.2.2 Buoyancy . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2.2.3 Stability and Metacentric Height
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2.3 Water in Motion: Hydrodynamics .
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2.3.1 Methods of the Study
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2.3.2 Steady and Unsteady Flow.
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2.3.3 Rotational and Irrotational Flows
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2.3.4 Mass-Conservation Equation .
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2.3.5 The Momentum Principle and Bernoulli Equation
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2.4 Laminar and Turbulent Flow.
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2.4.1 A Brief Overview
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2.4.2 Reynolds Number ...
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2.4.3 Mean and Fluctuating Components of Turbulent Flow
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2.5 Boundary Layer Flows
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2.5.1 Motivation.
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