Over 400 beautiful black-and-white photographs, collected from around the world, illustrate the great diversity of fluid motion. Flows ranging from creeping to hypersonic speeds, in both the laboratory and Nature, are observed directly, or made visible using smoke, ink, bubbles, particles, shadographs, schlieren, interferometry, and other techniques. Succinct captions describe the essential features of each flow.
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Everybody with an interest in fluid dynamics, from freshman to expert, will enjoy and benefit from this book; everybody can afford to buy it; everybody should. --Peter Bradshaw, Contemporary Physics
Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American
This book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied Mechanics
This book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied Mechanics
Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American
This book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied Mechanics
Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American
This book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied Mechanics
Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American
Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American
This book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied Mechanics
This book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied Mechanics
Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American
This book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied Mechanics
Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American
This book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied Mechanics
Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American
About the Author
Milton Van Dyke was a Stanford professor emeritus who held joint appointments in Astro/Aero and Mechanical Engineering.
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An Absolute Classic of Fluid Mechanics,
This review is from: An Album of Fluid Motion (Paperback)
Anyone studying fluid mechanics should have a look at this book of visualized experimental results. The photography is excellent, the reproduction quality is superb and the explanations in the text are clear and thought-provoking. When taking your first courses in fluid mechanics, it is very worth having Van Dyke's Album of Fluid Motion around, to jog your intuition, motivate your studies and -- most importantly -- keep alive your sense of wonder.
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Excellent collection of images of real fluid motion,
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this album is a must for any scientist or engineer who wants to visualize fluid motion and understand the dependence of flow type upon physical variables. for example, there is a series of photos of spheres towed at a broad range of Reynolds numbers, which depend upon tow speed and viscosity (as well as sphere diameter). Markers in the fluid allow the reader to view the circulation at the various Renolds numbers and get a feel for the transition from laminar to turbulent flow. Several of the photos are classics.
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I bought this book about twenty years ago, and getting hold of it then was a nightmare. Peter Bradshaw (then at Imperial, before he moved to Stanford) had it at the top of his recommended reading list, and none of us realised that Milton van Dyke was printing it himself from his garage. Peter was absolutely right though. I cannot remember how many times I have had recourse to this to understand a facet of a particular flow or explain it to someone else. This is even more important in these days, as fewer and fewer students are being exposed to experimental flow visualisation techniques. If you can get this book here do it, you won't regret it.
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