Introductory fluid mechanics for physicists and mathematicians / Geoffrey J. Pert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Introduction
2 Flow of Ideal Fluids
3 Viscous Fluids
4 Waves and Instabilities in Fluids 9
5 Turbulent Flow
6 Boundary Layer Flow
7 Convective Heat Transfer
8 Compressible Flow and Sound Waves
9 Characteristics and Rarefactions
10 Shock Waves
11 Aerofoils in Low-Speed Incompressible Flow
12 Aerofoils in High-Speed Compressible Fluid Flow
13 Deflagrations and Detonations
14 Self-similar Methods in Compressible Gas Flow and Intermediate Asymptotics

Problems
Solutions 4
Bibliography
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This text will introduce the core ideas of fluid mechanics using both theoretical and experimental methods. The approach will be through physics and analytic methods. Empirical methods as used in engineering will be introduced when necessary if analytic methods are intractable"--