Fluid Mechanics : Volume 6

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Summary: enjoyed reading it
Review: I am a chemist, well... sort of, and not directly involved in fluid mechanics research. However, I did study classical, quantal, and statistical mechanics. Just out of curiosity, several months ago, I started reading fluid mechanics from a more engineering kind of book which I will not specify. As a person who is trained in mechanics (classical or quantal) and thermodynamics, the first thing I was looking for was the specification of state of fluid. The book I was reading indeed described how the state of a fluid is quantified after 100 or so pages. Duh!! Afterwards I switched to Landau. Guess what? Page one, paragraph two, first sentence reads: "The mathematical description of the state of a moving fluid is effected by means of ..." Just what I needed! Landau has no patience with indirectness that obscures the underlying principles. He is as direct as one can be and yet his presentation is smooth. After this experience I decided to try Landau first in matters of physics, and then explore what others have to say about the subject. Keep in mind that you will need some tensor analysis and surface/volume integrals. Sokolnikoff's out of print book on tensors is a good one. A naive treatment is given in Aris. I stil benefit from my Apostol's Calculus on subjects related with multivariable calculus although it does remind me my freshman year in which I had an acute dislike for him.

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Summary: An Important Book in Physics
Review: Landau & Lifshz "Course of Theoretical Physics" is a famous and respected set of books in Physics. Unfortunately, Butterworth-Heinemann, who currently prints those books in English, prints them with very poor quality. The books seem to be "printed" in old copy machines and the paper used is also a cheap one. In many pages, it is really hard to read the text, due to such poor printing.

Rating:
Summary: An Important Book in Physics
Review: Landau & Lifshz "Course of Theoretical Physics" is a famous and respected set of books in Physics. Unfortunately, Butterworth-Heinemann, who currently prints those books in English, prints them with very poor quality. The books seem to be "printed" in old copy machines and the paper used is also a cheap one. In many pages, it is really hard to read the text, due to such poor printing.

Rating:
Summary: An Important Book in Physics
Review: Landau & Lifshz "Course of Theoretical Physics" is a famous and respected set of books in Physics. Unfortunately, Butterworth-Heinemann, who currently prints those books in English, prints them with very poor quality. The books seem to be "printed" in old copy machines and the paper used is also a cheap one. In many pages, it is really hard to read the text, due to such poor printing.

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Summary: great book full of good stuff
Review: like the other books of this series a great book full of facinating thoughts and calculations. though it is very dense and the nomencature is different from the usual. one of the big values of the book lies in the fact that it gives a physics point of view on a typically more engineering type field

Rating:
Summary: great book full of good stuff
Review: like the other books of this series a great book full of facinating thoughts and calculations. though it is very dense and the nomencature is different from the usual. one of the big values of the book lies in the fact that it gives a physics point of view on a typically more engineering type field

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Summary: A solid text on fluid mechanics
Review: This is an excellent fluid mechanics text. It is also my first recommendation to those who wish to study acoustics. You ought to start with the initial chapters on fluids; you'll need that material for some of what follows. The 65-page chapter on sound is simply marvellous. And then comes material on a wealth of topics, including shock waves, supersonic flow, detonation waves, relativistic fluid dynamics, and a short but valuable section on superfluid dynamics and the propagation of sound in a superfluid.

For physics majors, this is the book to get on fluid mechanics. The explanations are short and clear, and the material is comprehensive. In addition, the exercises are well-chosen, and the solutions are always included.

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Summary: A very important text in fluid mechanics
Review: This is another fantastic book from the Landau-Lifshitz series. I studied it in depth and then taught from it. I don't think there is any book of PHYSICAL quantum mechanics comparable to it, not even the classical Sommerfeld's "Mechanics of Defromable Bodies". What I like most in this book is the constant use of thermodynamics, allowing the treatment of much more real (and interesting) systems. For instance, it derives quite early conditions for the establishment of atmospheric thermal inversion, a problem of great practical importance in our days. The introduction of the Reynold's number is also superior to any other I've met. Relativistic fluid mechanics receives also a very good treatment, being an excellent preparation for relativistic cosmology. In this book Landau presents his ideas on turbulence, what is called now the Landau-Kolmogoroff turbulence theory. This is being challenged, after recent progresses on deterministic chaos, by different theories, l! ike that of Ruelle-Takens. Still, in order to really enjoy the progresses in this field, you should know both, and the perfect source of information for Landau-Kolmogoroff theory is Landau's book.

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Summary: THE BEST AND MOST COMPLETE BOOK ON FLUID MECHANICS
Review: This is the Volume 6 of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. All serious students of theoretical physics must possess the ten volumes of this excellent Course, which cover in detail and rigour practically all the branches of theoretical physics. The Volume 6 treats the theory of the motion of liquids and gases. The book opens with the theory of ideal fluids and drives the attention of the reader to a large amount of topics, which are discussed in greater detail and, moreover, discussing with details topics not usually found in other similar books, such as turbulence, sound, fluid dynamics of combustion, relativistic fluid dynamics and the dynamics of superfluids. The book is written in a language proper of a theoretical physicist, but owing to its clarity, it can be read without problems for other scientists. A superb book!