About the Book: Elementary Fluid Mechanics
This textbook describes the fundamental "physical" aspects of fluid flows for
beginners of fluid mechanics in physics, mathematics and engineering, from the
point of view of modern physics. It also emphasizes the dynamical aspects of
fluid motions rather than the static aspects, illustrating vortex motions,
waves, geophysical flows, chaos and turbulence. Beginning with the fundamental
concepts of the nature of flows and the properties of fluids, the book presents
fundamental conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy, and the
equations of motion for both inviscid and viscous fluids. In addition to the
fundamentals, this book also covers water waves and sound