Fluid dynamics for physicists

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 -- Amazon.com. Mathematical Conventions -- 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. T.e. Faber. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. It is over three hundred and fifty years since Torricelli discovered the law obeyed by fountains, yet fluid dynamics remains an active and important branch of physics. This book provides an accessible and comprehensive account of the subject, emphasising throughout the fundamental physical principles, and stressing the connections with other branches of physics. Beginning with a gentle introduction, the book goes on to cover Bernouilli's theorem, compressible flow, potential flow, surface waves, viscosity, vorticity dynamics, thermal convection and instabilities, turbulence, non-Newtonian fluids and the propagation and attenuation of sound in gases. Undergraduate or graduate students in physics or engineering who are taking courses in fluid dynamics will find this book invaluable, but it will also be of great interest to anyone who wants to find out more about this fascinating subject

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.