Preface
Résumé
Interfaces are present in most fluid mechanics problems. They not only denote phase separations and boundary conditions, but also thin flames and discontinuity waves. As with Volume 1, this book is born out of the system and engineering e-journal, Thermodynamics of Interfaces and Fluid Mechanics, which studied thin zones separating media with different properties. This include phase separation as well as thin flames and discontinuity waves. At the macroscopic level, they are compared to material surfaces endowed with thermodynamic properties with their related constitutive laws. In Volume 2, of Fluid Mechanics at Interfaces, subtitled Case Studies and Instabilities, focuses on different kinds of we examined cases that involve 1D, 2D, or 3D manifolds in gaseous and liquid physical states, supercritical fluids, and single- or multiphase systems that may be pure or mixed. This volume also consists of six chapters. Volume 3 of Fluid Mechanics at Interfaces focuses on the Models and Society for diverse causes. First, we see that models are relative to applications (pollution, drops for propulsion, wind power, microgravity, four-dimensional equations to explain the role of electromagnetic fields). But the social consequences are important (Lavoisier's chemistry replaced alchemy to explain flames, blood circulation in two loops was a Harvey revolution in medicine, the fire of weapons led to considerable devastation).
