PublishedDover, July 2012 |
ISBN9780486488172 |
FormatSoftcover, 240 pages |
Dimensions23.5cm × 15.6cm × 1.5cm |
A readable and user-friendly introduction to fluid mechanics, this high-level text is geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Topics include a derivation of the equations of fluid motion from statistical mechanics, classical theory, and a portion of the modern mathematical theory of viscous, incompressible fluids, with considerable attention to the Navier-Stokes equations. 1973 edition.