文档介绍：Advances In Environmental
Fluid Mechanics
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Advances In Environmental
Fluid Mechanics
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World Scientific
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ADVANCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS
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ISBN-13 978-981-4291-99-6
ISBN-10 981-4291-99-4
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To Ljuba Nedeljkovi ć, physist from Belgrade.
Dragutin T. Mihailovic
To Susanna and Federico. To my parents.
Carlo Gualtieri
Preface
We live in a changing world. This thought expresses a historical fact entirely
present in man’s consciousness regardless of whether we consider him as an
individual or a social human being. The awareness about the changing world
always introduces an amount of anxiety into man’s life that can be defined by
the following question: whether man can preserve the existing world for the
future of his children. To preserve this world for the futu