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Summary: BUY IT NOW !
Review: I bought this book about a week ago and I'm very excited of having it, but it's hard for me to read this book at my current level. After briefly going through the pages, I think this book will be very helpfull to me in a year, or so.. If you're an undegraduate student and taking your 1st or 2nd course in "Fluid Dynamics", a better choice for you would be "Fundamentals of AERODYNAMICS" by Anderson - it will help you to start in "Fluids" easier than with this text, and it's more "student-oriented". However, if you're a graduate student (and by "graduate" I mean "just about to graduate" - don't wait - it seems to be a very serious text.
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Summary: the best fluid dynamics book of 90s
Review: The best fluid dynamics book I've ever read because it is complete and accurate . It will be an everlasting value to keep at hand in every moment. Do use it whenever you need to understand or remember the kernel of the most common fluid dynamics phenomena. A must-have worth buying
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Summary: An inspirational writer
Review: The books infuence and interminate info is one thing to aspire, but the person himself is one of unique interest. His very knowledge will keep you jumping out of your seat in full attentiveness of his every word uttered. He also is not limited to only one field but has aquired knowledge and skills of a variety of interests. As a person he is a very loving, caring, and humble indivisual who thinks of everyone but himself. With all of these qualities, creates an inspirational writer, whose work is revered by many. May God bless him, and continue his success!
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Summary: More Math than Physics
Review: This book is a very comprehensive one. It treats Incompressible flows, laminar and turbulent ones. It will guide you through the derivation of NS equation, boundary layer equation, and it will give you an introduction to turbulence. The book is complete in the sense that it deeply describes every aspect of the subject, but it does it ONLY from the MATHEMATHICAL point of view. No physics, no pictures (almost). It isn't ABSOLUTELY an introductory book: the level of mathematics is pretty high.
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Summary: One of the best on the market
Review: This is a fantastic fluid dynamics book! It is clearly written and easy to follow. The chapter exercises are very useful. Chapters include kinematics of fluid motion, conservation laws and kinematics of flows, Navier-Stokes equations, inviscid flows, laminar viscous flow, and turbulent flow. (The chapter on turbulent flow is excellent, balancing the right amount of theory and modeling.)The book also includes chapters on important mathematical concepts such as base vectors and representations, Gauss, Green, and Stokes theorems, geometry of space and plane curves, coordinate transformations, potential theory, singularities of the first order ODEs, geometry of surfaces, finite difference applied to PDSs, and frame invariancy. This is an excellent book that would be an excellent choice for advanced-undergraduate and graduate study.
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