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Incompressible Flow

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This book presents a horrible introduction to graduate level fluid mechanics. Some faculties like to teach from this book because of a few well-written sections near the end of an otherwise disastrous attempt on the subject. Kundu or Currie present a much more comprehensive approach to introducing the wonderful subject of fluids and the different solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.

The book is great, but FULL of erros. It looks like it never was corrected or edited. There are sign error on equations, missing terms is equations, bad correlation of equation numbers and so on. The overall quality of the book is excellent, but the errors kill it. Luckily the teacher of my class was the author himself so I could ask him and correct the errors as I was reading on. However, if you're buying this book and the author is not your teacher (most likely), then you'll run into some anoying troubles.

Overall, not a bad text. Definitely written for engineers, though. Many of the equations are rewritten in different coordinate systems which I found unecessary. In addition, some results are just introduced as fact with much of the mathematical rigor used to derive them left out. The physical arguments and treatment of Exact Solutions to Navier-Stokes are excellent.

This book is an excellent GRADUATE level text book on fluid mechanics. But to benefit from the book, you will first need to have good if not excellent understanding of undergraduate level material. On top of that, you will need to know index notation and perhaps some tesor knowledge from another class. The book only gives a brief review on this. If you are not familar with index notation or 2nd order tensor, the book by Aris is pretty decent. Some other good books are by Currie, White, Bird. But these books are not really good GRADUATE level texts. They are more of a dual level text IMO. And none of those cover as many important topics as this one does. And they try to avoid using tensor. But unfortunately, tensor is one of the most beautiful concepts in continum mechanics. Any text book on continum mechanics avoiding using tensor is at most a dual level text IMO.

All books mentioned above have examples with analytical solutions. And some of them are quite mathematical. Most of them have no good connection to real applications. However, you learn critical thinking rather than the knowledge from those examples. So, be ready to sharpen your analytical skills when studying those examples. But do not expect to be able to apply all of them to your real life applications.

I bought this textbook for a graduate course in fluid mechanics. Generally, the book does a terrible job of presenting material. Subjects do not seem to have a consistent flow and I often found myself turning to alternate information sources in order to understand the topic being presented.

Amazon however shipped very quickly as always and packaging was great.

This book does a nice job of presenting the basic ideas of incompressible flow, but does not have any examples for the problems. It has a very weak treatment of simple flows, but does a sufficiently good job of mathematically supporting each concept. Not the best book, but good enough for undergraduate/introductory courses.

The book store service is quick and good, but there are still errors in the book even through this is the third edition.

The text makes a clear presentation of the material, both in terms of giving background on index notation, and on deriving the equations of fluid motion. Well written and very clear.

One main complaint is the lack of examples that are worked out for the reader. Especially for subject matter that rewards familiarity and repetition, this would be a helpful inclusion

I used this book for a first course in fluid mechanics at graduate level. Initially, one may feel repelled at the arrangement of topics in the book, but once accustomed to this type of layout in graduate level texts( for e.g "Transport Phenomena" by Bird et al), it is a pleasure to read and learn therefrom.
What makes this book unique is that the author has successfully managed to describe important ideas with minimal description and mathematical jargon. However, for a novice in fluid mechanics(at a graduate level), reading this book without any interaction with a fluid mechanician(research worker/professor) might be a difficult task.

One of the bests books for graduates who are studying or researching fluid dynamics. Except for its price, it can't be better.