Mathematical Topics in Fluid Mechanics

This volume represents the proceedings of the summer course on Mathematical Topics in Fluid Mechanics, held in Lisbon, in September 1991. Amongst the topics covered are mathematical problems arising in differential models for viscoelastic fluids and shock waves in resonant dispersion media.
This Research Note presents several contributions and mathematical studies in fluid mechanics, namely in non-Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids and on the Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains. It includes review of the mathematical analysis of incompressible and compressible flows and results in magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic stability and thermoconvective flow of Boussinesq-Stefan type. These studies, along with brief communications on a variety of related topics comprise the proceedings of a summer course held in Lisbon, Portugal in 1991. Together they provide a set of comprehensive survey and advanced introduction to problems in fluid mechanics and partial differential equations.