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Summary: Gangbusters!
Review: I just couldn't get enough of this book. A real page-turner
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Summary: Primer
Review: This book comes from the author who is influenced by Clifford Truesdell(pioneer of Rational Continuum Mechanics & Thermodynamics). This book can be a good introductory material to begin study in rational mechanics. However, not so serious students may find it disappointing. One can surely learn some good tensor manipulation skills with application to fluid mechanics.
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Summary: Good reference
Review: This book would be good for a reference, however, I would not reccomend it for learning the subject or to supplement a course on fluid mechanics.
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Summary: Not for the weakhearted!
Review: This is one of those pithy classics that one needs to tread through very very carefully. The book is an uphill task, wherein rests its utility and fun. Fluid Mechanics in its simplified diluted version is served in many OTHER textbooks. This one serves it in its raw mathematical glory, and as the author says in the preface of the book, any serious engineer and fluid mechanician must realize that math must be befriended and mastered. The author makes very terse, and powerful introduction to the field. I would recommend a physicist to supplement it with a text by Faber, for Chemical Engineer to study it after the famous BSL (Transport Phenomenon), for a mathematician to pick it on any day, and for everyone in general to approach it with determination required to climb a rocky terrain. (Ah! I guess I would write an even better review if and when I finish reading it:)
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Summary: Primer
Review: Well, I don't want to go into an endless list of superlatives which this book really deserves. I'd rather point out some of its features. It's terse, sometimes awfully so & therefore, this's not the best book to learn the "basics". Don't expect any elementary physics of fluid flow. I've only read the first half of the book and in those less-than-hundred pages, I've appreciated fluid mechanics much more than I've by any other means. However, I must say that the so-called "indices" notation for vectors and tensors can be extremely frustrating and even confusing. This notation is so extensively used in the book that it can become possibly the only reason to put the book down. The order of presentation is quite nice. There are few problems to solve which mostly seem to fill in the details of presentation. The last chapter on mass transport is a disappointment, with nothing close to what one would expect in a book of this stature. It is however included only because "it would be unpardonable not to do so, for a book coming from Chemical Engineering dept". The author says in his preface that the time has come to go beyond the notion that engineers don't need rigorous applied mathematics and he proves his point in every page of his book. It's a pleasure to read and work on, especially the second half of the book. With patience, paper and pencil (lots of them), one can gain a real mastery over the subject. A true graduate-level book!
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