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TY - BOOK ID - tritton88 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5151731 N2 - This book presents the physics of incompressible flow for the benefit ofstudents and others who need to understand fluid motion. In this new edition,much of the material is new or rewritten, but the purpose and style of thefirst edition are retained. Particular emphasis is given to informationobtained by experiment and observation in addition to analysis of theequations of motion. The book's primary concern is to convey a fundamentalunderstanding of the behavior of fluids in motion. Special features include anintroductory non-mathematical treatment of three particular flowconfigurations; extensive consideration of geophysical topics; and detailedcoverage of topics that are known primarily through experimental data.Numerous photographs illustrate the phenomena discussed, and a concludingchapter demonstrates the wide applicability of fluid mechanics. New topics inthe second edition include double diffusive convection and modern ideas aboutdynamical chaos. The discussion of instabilities has been restructured and thetreatments of separation and of convection in horizontal layers considerablyexpanded. SN - 0198544936 TI - Physical Fluid Dynamics (Oxford Science Publications) PB - Oxford University Press, USA KW - book KW - fluid-mechanics AU - Tritton, DJ PY - 1988/11/03/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0198544936 ER -