Opinions?:Foundations of Fluid Mechanics with Applications
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- Subject: [mg60910] Opinions?:Foundations of Fluid Mechanics with Applications
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 04:06:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
If you have read _Foundations of Fluid Mechanics with Applications_ could you, please, provide an assessment of the book? I have a fairly solid understanding of the basics of physics and the Calculus of several variables. What I'm most interested in are methods of visualizing the geometric arguments used to derive such things as the Reynolds Transport Theorem, as well as modeling physical systems. In particular, hurricanes. Would this book be a good place to get a solid grounding in the physics involved in modeling hurricanes, and the like? http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Books/3507/ "This text, appropriate for graduate students and professionals, presents the basic concepts and methods of fluid mechanics, including Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions. tensors of stresses and strains, continuity, momentum, energy, thermodynamics laws, and similarilty theory. Utilizes Mathematica to develop concepts and help the reader to master methods of problem solving." -- "Philosophy is written in this grand book, The Universe. ... But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language... in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, ...; without which wanders about in a dark labyrinth." The Lion of Gaul