Fluid Dynamics for Physicists
Fluid Dynamics for Physicists
$116.00
USDThis textbook provides an accessible and comprehensive account of fluid dynamics that emphasizes fundamental physical principles and stresses connections with other branches of physics. Beginning with a basic introduction, the book goes on to cover many topics not typically treated in texts, such as compressible flow and shock waves, sound attenuation and bulk viscosity, solitary waves and ship waves, thermal convection, instabilities, turbulence, and the behavior of anisotropic, non-Newtonian and quantum fluids. Undergraduate or graduate students in physics or engineering who are taking courses in fluid dynamics will find this book invaluable.
- Very accessible presentation
- Wide range of topics covered
- Stresses connections with other branches of physics
Reviews & endorsements
"...a good contribution to the fluid mechanics literature...a stimulating and enjoyable description of various important flow phenomena." M.F. Platzer, Applied Mechanics Reviews
"Fluid Dynamics for Physicists is a very accessible text, as well as a very comprehensive one, for anyone wishing to learn or teach basic fluid dynamics." Stanley A. Berger, Physics Today
"The book is well written and comprehensible, and it has attractive and helpful diagrams. There are occasional excellent photographs. The notation is simple and readable....[T]here is much in this book to please and interest any reader." John L. Lumley, American Journal of Physics
Product details
August 1995Paperback
9780521429696
468 pages
250 × 175 × 23 mm
1.7kg
202 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. A bird's-eye view
- 2. The Euler fluid
- 3. Gas dynamics
- 4. Potential flow
- 5. Surface waves
- 6. Viscosity
- 7. Vorticity
- 8. Instabilities
- 9. Turbulence
- 10. Non-Newtonian fluids
- Appendix: one-dimensional sound waves in gases.
