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A Gallery of Fluid Motion

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A pretty little book. It brings together several papers on fluid mechanics, where each paper is distinguished by one or more snapshots of fluid flow. Inspiring to the researcher, in much the same way as perhaps hardcopies of VLSI designs are to the chip designer.

But the papers and diagrams here also serve a serious purpose. In fluid mechanics, a lot of qualitative understanding can arise from studying such diagrams. Not the least because sometimes modelling the equations leads to massive sets of numerical results, which might have to be understood visually. And in the book, the diagrams are of actual experimental results, not simulations, but the idea is the same. You often need some diagrams to understand the underlying phenomena.

Lots of pictures that would look great in color. In fact are pretty good in shades of grey. Formatting is good with an occasional miss. Descriptions are sketchy. Some give adequate parameters some not. Good source of pretty picts for comparison with other results or models. Contents works well.

Oh, Nooooo!!! I was hoping that the color images would appear on the PC Kindle App. No such luck! PC version is also in shades of grey! To see color images try the Google books preview.

Quite fascinating to actually see what is happening to the fluids in various situations. There are some basic descriptions for the diagrams. Not really for entry level learning but it's a nice supplement for a Calculus/Diff EQ based fluid dynamics class.