TY - BOOK AU - Galdi,Giovanni P. AU - Heywood,John G. AU - Rannacher,Rolf TI - Contributions to current challenges in mathematical fluid mechanics T2 - Advances in mathematical fluid mechanics SN - 3764371048 (hardcover) U1 - 532.00151 PY - 2004/// CY - Basel ; Boston PB - Birkhauser Basel KW - Fluid mechanics KW - Navier-Stokes equations N1 - The mathematical theory of the Navier-Stokes equations presents still fundamental open questions that represent as many challenges for the interested mathematicians. This volume collects a series of articles whose objective is to furnish new contributions and ideas to these questions, with particular regard to turbulence modelling, regularity of solutions to the initial-value problem, flow in region with an unbounded boundary and compressible flow. Contributors: A. Biryuk D. Chae and J. Lee A. Dunca, V. John and W.J. Layton T. Hishida T. Leonaviciene and K. Pileckas ER -