TY - GEN AU - Pert, Geoffrey. J. TI - Introductory fluid mechanics for physicists and mathematicians SN - 9781119944850 U1 - 620.106 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Chichester PB - John Wiley KW - Fluid mechanics KW - SCIENCE KW - Mechanics KW - General. KW - Heat -- Transmission KW - Hydrodynamics N1 - 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 ndex N2 - 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"-- ER -