Fluid Mechanics: A Short Course for Physicists 1st Edition by Gregory Falkovich (PDF)

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The multidisciplinary field of fluid mechanics is one of the most actively developing fields of physics, mathematics and engineering. In this book, the fundamental ideas of fluid mechanics are presented from a physics perspective. Using examples taken from everyday life, from hydraulic jumps in a kitchen sink to Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities in clouds, the book provides readers with a better understanding of the world around them. It teaches the art of fluid-mechanical estimates and shows how the ideas and methods developed to study the mechanics of fluids are used to analyze other systems with many degrees of freedom in statistical physics and field theory. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, the book assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and only a basic understanding of vector calculus and analysis. It contains 32 exercises of varying difficulties, from simple estimates to elaborate calculations, with detailed solutions to help readers understand fluid mechanics.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “This reviewer highly commends Falklovich for presenting a difficult topic compactly with clarity..Highly recommended.” – CHOICE Book Description Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, this book presents the fundamental ideas of fluid mechanics from a physics perspective. From the Author In this book you find answers to the questions you always wanted to ask:- Why and where wind blows? – Why fluids resist moving through them?- Why birds and planes do not fell from the skies?- How windsurfers orient board and sail relative to the wind?You also find answers to the questions you never thought about asking:- Why water cannot be held by atmospheric pressure in the upside-down glass?- Why ships always leave the same wave pattern no matter their size and speed?- What creates a cumulative effect of armour-piercing shells?The book has a website with Q&A and additional materials, including movies:weizmann.ac.il/complex/falkovich/fluid-mechanics About the Author Gregory Falkovich is a Professor in the Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science. He has researched in plasma, condensed matter, fluid mechanics, statistical and mathematical physics and cloud physics and meteorology, and has won several awards for his work. Read more

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⭐Five years after writing my original review for this book, I had to come back and change the score from 4 stars to 5. It is a book that I keep coming back to, any time I want to quickly survey a subject in Fluid Mechanics, or play with its equations and concepts. Falkovich deserves tremendous credit, for covering the fundamentals of FM in a clear and concise manner, which is sure to make any physicist smile. The equations do not fall from the sky, and he develops a strong idealized approach at the start, then moves into a proper dynamic treatment.I would highly recommend that one come at this text with a solid background in vector and tensor analysis. While it is possible for a reader, skilled in multivariate calculus and physics to pull some knowledge from this book, proficient analysis techniques are required to dive deep into the equations and grasp their meaning.It is worth noting, that this book’s shorter format has made it very convenient. It travels with me often, and it is something that I enjoy reading from any hotel room, as I scribble away on my graphing paper. Indeed, Falkovich’s Fluid Mechanics is an excellent short course for Physicists, and one can only hope that it will some day be expanded into a full opus.

⭐Very nice book. I used it for my class in Mechanics of Conrtinua course at ETH Zurich. Tha main advange of it is that it is short. Compared to other textbooks on Fluid Mechanics it gives in clear way most basic things. It doesn’t mena though that it is simplified. In the part of Burger turbulence and nonlinear equatiion it is much more modern, than Landau Lifschitz. IGreat book for introduction to the field written by expert.

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