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An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics

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Stephen Childress, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY

Publication: Courant Lecture Notes
Publication Year: 2009; Volume 19
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4888-3 (print); 978-1-4704-1762-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/cln/019
MathSciNet review: MR2546940
MSC: Primary 76-01; Secondary 35Q30, 76A02, 76B10, 76D05

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Table of Contents

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Chapters

• Chapter 1. The fluid continuum
• Chapter 2. Conservation of mass and momentum
• Chapter 3. Vorticity
• Chapter 4. Potential flow
• Chapter 5. Lift and drag in ideal fluids
• Chapter 6. Viscosity and the Navier-Stokes equations
• Chapter 7. Stokes flow
• Chapter 8. The boundary layer
• Chapter 9. Energy
• Chapter 10. Sound
• Chapter 11. Gas dynamics
• Chapter 12. Shock waves

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