Books by Grigory Isaakovich (University of California Barenblatt

An outstanding resource for every teacher and student of the mechanics of continuous media. The author's unique approach, using the concept of intermediate asymptotics, has been tried and tested over a period of forty years teaching the subject in Russia, Europe and America.

This 2003 book describes and teaches the art of discovering scaling laws, starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity. It demonstrates the concepts of intermediate asymptotics and the renormalisation group as natural consequences of self-similarity and shows how and when these notions and tools can be applied, and when they cannot.