Prandtl's essentials of fluid mechanics. With contributions by M. Böhle, D. Etling, U. Müller, K. R. S. Sreenivasan, U. Riedel, and J. Warnatz. Translated by Katherine Mayes.
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title: Prandtl's essentials of fluid mechanics. With contributions by M. Böhle, D. Etling, U. Müller, K. R. S. Sreenivasan, U. Riedel, and J. Warnatz. Translated by Katherine Mayes.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1073.76001
published in: Applied Mathematical Sciences
publication date: 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
review text: Prandtl's classical text on fluid mechanics, which under the German title ``Führer durch die Strömungslehre'' first appeared in 1942 and now runs in a modernized and updated form into 11 German editions, is with good reasons regarded as the best book in the field it covers, not only in the German-speaking countries but worldwide. The original ``Führer durch die Strömungslehre'' (``Guide à travers la mécanique des fluides'') was translated into four foreign languages. The first English translation from the German third edition appeared under the slightly paraphrased but apt title ``The Essentials of Fluid Mechanics'' in 1952 (1952; Zbl 0048.42801). The present second English edition, ``Prandtl's Essentials of Fluid Mechanics'', follows the 10th German edition of the book published in 2001 under the German new title ``Prandtl-Führer durch die Strömungslehre'' (Zbl 1012.76001), it is however not its literal translation. As with respect to all other previous editions, the present book is a thoroughly revised, updated and enlarged new one that in the best possible way takes into account the accumulated body of knowledge in the field of fluid mechanics during the elapsed fifty years. However, the main characteristics of the Prandtl-book have been preserved, both with regard to the selection of the material and the way how it is presented. The book contains 14 main chapters, including an excellent introduction and a chapter that presents the fundamental equations of fluid mechanics. The topics treated in the various chapters are title-wise indicated under the keywords in this review. The chapters 2 to 4 on the basics of fluid mechanics, which in the substance is the original Prandtl's material enlarged with the significant subchapters on the ``Topology of a Flow'' and on ``Flows of Non-Newtonian Media'', as well as chapter 5 on the fundamental fluid-mechanical equations, are provided with appropriate problems with solutions, which presents a new feature of the book in comp…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76-02
zbMATH DE Number: 2105695
zbMATH Keywords: fluid properties
zbMATH Keywords: fluid flow kinematics
zbMATH Keywords: fluid dynamics
zbMATH Keywords: aerodynamics
zbMATH Keywords: turbulent flows
zbMATH Keywords: fluid-mechanical instabilities
zbMATH Keywords: convective heat and mass transfer
zbMATH Keywords: multiphase flows
zbMATH Keywords: reactive flows
zbMATH Keywords: atmospheric and ocean flows
zbMATH Keywords: biofluid mechanics
zbMATH Keywords: thermal turbomachinery
reviewed by: Tomislav Zlatanovski
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2105695