Introductory Fluid Mechanics for Physicists and Mathematicians - 9781119944843

Fluid mechanics tends to be neglected by modern physics curricula, says Pert (physics, U. of York, Britain), and attributes that to its being considered classical, so old fashion, and because it was generally developed by engineers and applied mathematicians, so grew up on the wrong side of the academic tracks. He offers a pedagogical summary of the physics of fluid flow, abstracting several classic texts that readers are referred to for more detail. The succinctness of his treatment has forced him to exclude flows in a rotating environment and computational fluid dynamics. His topics include flow of ideal fluids, waves and instabilities in fluids, convective heat transfer, aerofoils in low-speed incompressible flow, and self-similar methods in compressible gas flow and intermediate asymptotics. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)