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Recommended
reading
An excellent introduction
to fluid dynamics is given by the folllowing two books:
D.J. Acheson
Elementary Fluid Dynamics,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990.
A.R.
Paterson,
A First Course in Fluid
Dynamics, Cambridge
University Press, 1983.
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The following two books
contain many excellent photographs illustrating important fluid
dynamical phenomena:
M.
Van Dyke
An Album of Fluid Motion, Parabolic
Press, 1982.
M.
Samimy, K.S. Breuer, L.G. Leal and P.H. Steen
A Gallery of Fluid Motion, Cambridge
University Press, 2004.
In a similar vein is the
CD:
G.M.
Homsy et al.
Multi-media Fluid Mechanics,
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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The following books all
cover the ideas of hydrodynamic stability:
P.G.
Drazin
Introduction to Hydrodynamic Stability, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
P.G.
Drazin and W.H. Reid
Hydrodynamic Stability, Cambridge University Press, 1981.
S.
Chandrasekar
Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic
Stability,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961.
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