Fluid dynamics, the behavior of liquids and gases, is a field of broad impact -- in physics, engineering, oceanography, and meteorology for example -- yet full understanding demands fluency in higher mathematics, the only language Fluid Dynamics speaks.
Meyer writes, -This core of our knowledge concerns the relation between inviscid and viscous fluids, and the bulk of this book is devoted to a discussion of that relation.-.
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Some Effects of Compressibility: Thermodynamics, Waves, Shock relations and structure, Navier-Stokes equations.
Some Aspects of Rotating Fluids: Rossby number, Ekman layer, Taylor-Proudman Blocking.
Fluids of Small Viscosity: Singular Perturbation, Boundary Layers.
Newtonian Fluid: Constitutive and Kinetic theories, exact solutions.
Momentum Principle and Ideal Fluid: Conservation examples, Euler equations, D\'Alembert\'s and Kelvin\'s theorems.
The author develops basic concepts from a semi-axiomatic foundation, noting that -for mathematics students such a treatment helps to dispel the all too common impression that the whole subject is built on a quicksand of assorted intuitions.- Contents include: Kinematics: Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions, Circulation and Vorticity.
A knowledge of calculus and vector analysis is presupposed.
Richard Meyer\'s work is indeed introductory, while written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences.
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Fluid dynamics, the behavior of liquids and gases, is a field of broad impact -- in physics, engineering, oceanography, and meteorology for example -- yet full understanding demands fluency in higher mathematics, the only language Fluid Dynamics speaks
