**Preface** XIII

	- **Part 2 Biological Applications and Biohydrodynamics 93**


Contents VII

**Part 5 Special Topics on Simulations and Experimental Data 379**

Chapter 17 **Flow Evolution Mechanisms of Lid-Driven Cavities 411** José Rafael Toro and Sergio Pedraza R.

**Quasicrystals and Its Applications 429**

Chapter 16 **Hydrodynamics of a Droplet in Space 381** 

Tian You Fan and Zhi Yi Tang

Hitoshi Miura

Chapter 18 **Elasto-Hydrodynamics of** 


Chapter 16 **Hydrodynamics of a Droplet in Space 381**  Hitoshi Miura

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**Part 3 Detailed Experimental Analyses of Fluids and Flows 143** 

**Particles Formation Using SAS Process 169**

**Mechanically Agitated Stirred Vessels 227**

**Aggregates with Complex Structure 251**

**Magnetohydrodynamics and Magnetorheology 267** 

N. Merbahi, J.P. Sarrette, M. Meziane and M. Benhenni

**Posses Strong Non-Linear Heat Conduction and Stiff Source Terms (Radiation Hydrodynamics) 293** 

**Conditions and Electrostatics Interactions 319** 

Guiji Wang, Jianheng Zhao, Binqiang Luo and Jihao Jiang

Chiara Galletti and Elisabetta Brunazzi

A. Montes, A. Tenorio, M. D. Gordillo, C. Pereyra and E. J. Martinez de la Ossa

**and Dipolar Molecules in Polar and Binary Solvent Mixtures 185**

Chapter 7 **Microrheology of Complex Fluids 145**  Laura J. Bonales, Armando Maestro, Ramón G. Rubio and Francisco Ortega

Chapter 8 **Hydrodynamics Influence on**

Chapter 9 **Rotational Dynamics of Nonpolar** 

Sanjeev R. Inamdar

Chapter 11 **Hydrodynamic Properties of** 

Lech Gmachowski

**Part 4 Radiation-, Electro-,** 

Chapter 12 **Electro-Hydrodynamics of** 

**Micro-Discharges in Gases at Atmospheric Pressure 269**  O. Eichwald, M. Yousfi, O. Ducasse,

Chapter 13 **An IMEX Method for the Euler Equations that** 

Samet Y. Kadioglu and Dana A. Knoll

Chapter 14 **Hydrodynamics on Charged Superparamagnetic Microparticles in Water Suspension:** 

P. Domínguez-García and M.A. Rubio

**Electrical Explosion and Magnetically Driven Quasi-Isentropic Compression 347** 

**Effects of Low-Confinement** 

Chapter 15 **Magnetohydrodynamics of Metallic Foil** 

Chapter 10 **Flow Instabilities in**


Preface

**Introduction** 

cosmos".

*"Water is the beginning of everything" (Tales of Mile to) "Air is the beginning of everything" (Anaxagoras of Mile to)*

(eventual) limitations to deal with its fluidic constituents.

touch the bubble, exploding it, showing its fragility.

Why is it important to study Hydrodynamics? The answer may be strictly technical, but it may also involve some kind of human feeling about our environment and our

As teachers, when talking to our students about the importance of quantifying fluids, we (authors) go to the blackboard and draw, in blue color, a small circumference in the center of the board, and add the obvious name 'Earth'. Some words are then said, in the sense that Hydrodynamics is important, because we are beings strictly adapted to live immersed in a fluidic environment (air), and because we are beings composed basically by simple fluidic solutions (water solutions), encapsulated in fine carbon membranes. Then, with a red chalk, we draw two crosses: one inside and the other outside the circumference, explaining: "our environment is very limited. We can only survive in the space covered by the blue line. No one of us can survive in the inner part of this sphere, or in the outer space. Despite all films, games, and books about contacts with aliens, and endless journeys across the universe, our present knowledge only allows to suggest that it is most probable that the human being will extinct while in this fine fluid membrane, than to create sustainable artificial environments in the

Sometimes, to add some drama, we project the known image of the earth on a wall (the image of the blue sphere), and then we blow a soap bubble explaining that the image gives the false impression that the entire sphere is our home. But our "home" is better represented by the liquid film of the soap bubble (only the film) and then we

In the sequence, we explain that a first reason to understand fluids would be, then, to guarantee the maintenance of the fluidic environment (the film) so that we could also guarantee our survival as much as possible. Further, as we move ourselves and produce our things immersed in fluid, it is interesting to optimize such operations in order to facilitate our survival. Still further, because our organisms interchange heat
