Course of Theoretical Physics: Fluid Mechanics

L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, "Course of Theoretical Physics, vol.6 - Fluid Mechanics"

Pergamon Press | 1987 | 2nd edition | ISBN: 0080339328 | 552 pages | DJVU | 5,76 MB

Between 1938 and 1960 Landau, together with his student and collaborator E. M. Lifshitz, wrote a series of volumes under the heading of Course of Theoretical Physics, covering mechanics, classical field theory, quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum theory, statistical physics, fluid mechanics, theory of elasticity, electrodynamics of continuous media, and physical kinetics. Some of the sections are actually based on original research performed by the authors. There are few works on contemporary physics that match the Course of Theoretical Physics in terms of clarity of exposition and scope of treatment; it is therefore not surprising that in April 1962 this veritable encyclopedia received the Lenin Prize.

This is the most comprehensive introductory graduate or advanced undergraduate text in fluid mechanics available. It builds up from the fundamentals, often in a general way, to widespread applications, to technology and geophysics. New to this second edition are discussions on the universal dimensions similarity scaling for the laminar boundary layer equations and on the generalized vector field derivatives. In addition, new material on the generalized stream function treatment shows how stream function may be used in three-dimensional flows. Finally, a new Computational Fluid Dynamics chapter enables computations of some simple flows and provides entry to more advanced literature. This book gives basic introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, intended for undergraduate and beginning graduate students of science and engineering. It includes topics of special interest for geophysicists and to engineers. It presents new and generalized treatment of similar laminar boundary layers, stream functions for three-dimensional flows, vector field derivatives, and gas dynamics, along with a new generalized treatment of boundary conditions in fluid mechanics, and expanded treatment of viscous flows.

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