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Scaling (Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics)
Scaling - Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics Author:Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt Starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity, G. Barenblatt describes the art of discovering scaling laws. He demonstrates the concepts of intermediate asymptotics and the renormalization group as natural consequences of self-similarity and shows how and when these tools can tackle the task at hand, and when they cannot. Based on c... more »ourses taught to undergraduate and graduate students, the book can also be used independently by biologists, chemists, astronomers, engineers and geoscientists.« less