Fluid Dynamics for Physicists 1st Edition by T. E. Faber (PDF)

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It is over three hundred and fifty years since Torricelli discovered the law obeyed by fountains, yet fluid dynamics remains an active and important branch of physics. This book provides an accessible and comprehensive account of the subject, emphasising throughout the fundamental physical principles, and stressing the connections with other branches of physics. Beginning with a gentle introduction, the book goes on to cover Bernouilli’s theorem, compressible flow, potential flow, surface waves, viscosity, vorticity dynamics, thermal convection and instabilities, turbulence, non-Newtonian fluids and the propagation and attenuation of sound in gases. Undergraduate or graduate students in physics or engineering who are taking courses in fluid dynamics will find this book invaluable, but it will also be of great interest to anyone who wants to find out more about this fascinating subject.

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⭐Having never had a Fluid Dynamics course as an undergrad some 30yrs ago, I was recently asked to join a team working on said problems. I asked around for an introductory book, hooping against all hope that there would be an easy primer for me to pick up the basics. This book was recommended, and after going through the first chapter I can say that due to the problem types involved no such book exists.This one is pretty good, but as solving Fluid Dynamics problems is high order mathematics, there is no way to have a ‘Dummies’ book 🙁

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⭐I probably wouldn’t select this as the primary text for a fluid dynamics course, as it’s organization of topics seems somewhat esoteric. As the author admits in the preface, their are already a number of excellent texts available in the classic style. I would however recommend this book highly for supplementary reading, as it delves into a number of detailed examples and manages to elucidate many physical insights that get buried or glossed over in the conventional treatments. The author also conveys a great passion for the subject, which he believes has suffered neglect in most physics curricula in favor of more sexy and modern topics, which I tend to agree with.

⭐I felt compelled to write a more favorable review of this book after reading the 1 star review. Actually I can not only sympathize with the other reviewer (from Singapore) but totally agree with that person. This book is not an introductory text, nor is it really a good stand alone reference. It really is weak on the development of the mathematics for any particular fluid situation discussed. It would be an absolutely terrible place to learn fluid mechanics. However it is good at discussing the mechanisms behind the phenomena. Many books offer equation after equation without a very good explanations; this book offers good explanation after explanation without very good equations. Thus for me I see it as a companion text.It has its welcome place on my shelf with reason. It covers a lot of fluid phenomena not found in an intro text in what I would call a quick and dirty way.For example – hydraulic jump. An intro text might have a section on this and would explain it in terms of energy arguments etc.. However the Faber book approachs the problem from a completely different angle and discusses the hyperbolic nature of little waves travelling on top of big waves and discusses the underlying reason why the waves gather on top of each other to form one breaking wave front.Another example – Taylor vorticies and Benard convection (rotationl flow and natural convection) are treated together because they have the same underlying Raleigh instability – an insight skipped by most texts.I would recommend this book for people in the field of fluid mechanics for the long haul that also happen to be book collectors. I would also recommend it for any corporate library where fluids are studied.

⭐This book is a page-turner. I originally picked it up while studying for a postgraduate course on shock waves, but soon decided that I wanted to know more about the various other topics Faber discusses: gravity waves, vorticies, etc. I ended up reading the majority of the book, just for fun! The pleasure of reading this book is aided further by some marvelous photographs of the various phenomena.This book’s great strength is that it presents the physics of the situations without getting bogged down in the mathematical details. (As for the symbol definitions, I was initially annoyed by that–until I realised that all symbols are conveniently defined on the inside cover. After I realised this, it was much faster to find symbol definitions in this text than any other I’ve used, where one usually has to flick through entire chapters looking for the definition.)There are plenty of highly mathematical books on fluid dynamics; this isn’t one of them, and I dare anyone to gain physical insight on how fluids behave by staring at chapters filled with partial differential equations. There is more to life than derivations. That said, all the results which I needed were fully derived, so it’s not fair to say that this book presents the math poorly. It just isn’t the book’s focus, and rightly so.Thus, I have to disagree with both of the other reviewers. I was using the book as an introductory text, and (although I had others) I found it made an excellent stand-alone source. For my situation (having little knowledge of fluid dynamics and wanting to get the necessary background to study a certain phenomena, shock waves, in great depth) this book was invaluable. I would highly recommend it to anyone who’s interested in the physics of fluids.

⭐So, my professor ordered exactly the number of books as there were people registered in the class. He informed us when they arrived. I went down to the university bookstore a couple of days later to look for the book and they told me they were sold out!The book only covers the Euler formulation of fluid dynamics, which is a pretty useful way of looking at fluids, but there is also the Lagrangian formulation.

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