G. K. Batchelor

First published in 1967, Professor Batchelor's classic text on fluid dynamics is still one of the foremost texts in the subject. The careful presentation of the underlying theories of fluids is still timely and applicable, even in these days of almost limitless computer power. This re-issue should ensure that a new generation of graduate students see the elegance of Professor Batchelor's presentation.

Matania Ben-Artzi, Joseph Falcovitz

The primary goal of numerical simulation of compressible, inviscid time-dependent flow is to represent the time evolution of complex flow patterns. The Generalized Riemann Problem (GRP) algorithm, developed by the authors, comprises some of the most commonly used numerical schemes of this process. This monograph presents the GRP methodology starting with the underlying mathematical principles through basic scheme analysis and scheme extensions. Examples illustrate the range of the algorithm's applications. Background material makes the book accessible to both researchers and graduate students of applied mathematics, science and engineering.

C. J. Chapman

High-Speed Flow is a textbook suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and research workers in fluid dynamics. It covers such topics as subsonic and supersonic flight, shock waves and high-speed aerofoils. Starting from first principles, the book gives complete and elementary derivations of all results, taking the reader to research level. The book contains many exercises and an extensive bibliography, providing access to the entire literature of the subject from 1860 to the present day. It contains the most extensive set of formulae on thermodynamics and oblique shock waves ever assembled.

P. G. Drazin

Instability of flows and their transition to turbulence are widespread phenomena in engineering and the natural environment, and are important in applied mathematics, astrophysics, biology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography and physics as well as engineering. This is a textbook to introduce these phenomena at a level suitable for a graduate course, by modelling them mathematically, and describing numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. Readers are assumed to be fluent in linear algebra, advanced calculus, elementary theory of ordinary differential equations, complex variables and the elements of fluid mechanics.

G. M. Homsy, H. Aref, K. S. Breuer, S. Hochgreb, J. R. Koseff, B. R. Munson, K. G. Powell, C. R. Robertson, S. T. Thoroddsen

This CD provides an interactive tool for teaching undergraduate fluid mechanics. It includes experiments that demonstrate fluid mechanical phenomena, animations of important principles and concepts, virtual laboratories in which students acquire data from the images, interactive computational exercises in which parameters may be varied, and other descriptive and illuminating material on applications. The content may be accessed randomly through a hyperlinked text, a search engine, a video library, and a glossary of terms. Thanks to developments in technology this new release includes versions in English, Spanish and French.

Carlo Cercignani

This book presents the concepts, methods and applications of kinetic theory to rarefied gas dynamics. After introducing the basic tools, problems in plane geometry are treated using approximation techniques (perturbation and numerical methods). These same techniques are later used to deal with two- and three-dimensional problems. Each section is accompanied by problems which are mainly intended to demonstrate the use of the material in the text. This will help ensure that the book can be used for a range of graduate courses in aerospace engineering or applied mathematics.

M. S. Howe

The book is an introduction to theory of sound generation by fluid flow, specially written for a one semester course at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. It starts with a review of elementary theoretical acoustics and proceeds to a unified treatment of low Mach number 'vortex-surface' interaction noise in terms of the compact Green's function. Problems are provided at the end of each chapter, many of which can be used for extended student projects. A whole chapter is devoted to worked examples.

J. Billingham, A. C. King

This textbook is an introduction to the mathematics of wave phenomena, and is aimed at advanced undergraduate courses on waves for mathematicians, physicists or engineers. Further material on both linear and nonlinear waves is also included, thus making the book suitable for beginning graduate courses. The context and physics that underlie the mathematics is clearly explained at the beginning of each chapter. Worked examples and exercises are supplied throughout, with solutions available to teachers.