Fluid Dynamics for Physicists [Paperback]

Comprehensive account of fluid dynamics, covering basic principles and advanced topics.This accessible and comprehensive account of fluid dynamics emphasizes fundamental physical principles and stresses connections with other branches of physics. It covers many topics not typically treated in similar texts and is geared to undergraduate or graduate students.This accessible and comprehensive account of fluid dynamics emphasizes fundamental physical principles and stresses connections with other branches of physics. It covers many topics not typically treated in similar texts and is geared to undergraduate or graduate students.This 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.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. ...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 occasiol�