Our department is offering an elective on Fluid Mechanics in daily life. The course is supposed to be more of a physical treatment of the fluid phenomena rather than mathematical. I would like some recommendations for books on the subject which are light and speak about fluid physics from a physical and application based perspective
I don’t think that any fluid dynamics course can be done without some fundamental math in vector calculous and PDE.
see for example the well known textbooks, White is a basic one, as well as Kundu et al.
Filippo Maria Denaro wrote, "I don’t think that any fluid dynamics course can be done without some fundamental math.." I completely agree. Among the many books on Fluid Mechanics, I find that the one that best embraces the physical point of view of the discipline is that of Guyon, E., Hulin, J. P., Petit, L., & de Gennes, P. G. (2001). Hydrodynamique physique, EDP sciences, whose first edition (2001) was prefaced by Pierre Gilles de Gennes (Nobel Prize for Physics) who did not lack praise for the particularity of the integration of physics in the very conception of the book. The book is in its third edition and has more than 750 citations.
Guyon, E., Hulin, J. P., & Petit, L. (2021). Hydrodynamique physique. EDP sciences.
Even if the book is in French, I think it would be interesting to consult it if only to have an idea of its construction
Mahvash Afzal
have also a look to this textbook
https://engineeringbookslibrary.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/fluid-mechanics-fundamentals-and-applications-3rd-edition-cengel-and-cimbala-2014.pdf
Here are some books on Fluid Mechanics that you might find interesting and easy to read:
- “An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics” by Faith A. Morrison1.
- “Basics of Fluid Mechanics” by Genick Bar-Meir2.
Two more hopefully useful resources - not so much math but more on developing intuition:
1. Milton van Dyke, "Album of Fluid Motion" (unfortunately out of print, but you may find a copy in the library)
2. Homsy, Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Online (you need to pay a subscription fee of 10.75 GBP)
Website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/homsy/
The book Guyon, E., Hulin, J. P., Petit, L., & de Gennes, P. G. (2001). Hydrodynamique physique has an English translation which is published by Oxford University Press. The 2015 edition has a tiny font which makes the book hard to read, the 2001 edition is better in terms of font readability
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