Incompressible flow / Ronald L. Panton.

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Continuum mechanics -- Thermodynamics -- Vector calculus and index notation -- Kinematics of local fluid motion -- Basic laws -- Newtonian fluids and the Navier-Stokes equations -- Some incompressible flow patterns -- Dimensional analysis -- Compressible flow -- Incompressible flow -- Some solutions of the Vavier-Stokes equations -- Streamfunctions and the velocity potential -- Vorticity dynamics -- Flows at moderate Reynolds numbers -- Asymptotic analysis methods -- Characteristics of high-Reynolds-number flows -- Kinematic decomposition of flow fields -- Ideal flows in a plane -- Three-dimensional ideal flows -- Boundary layers -- Flow at low Reynolds numbers -- Lubrication approximation -- Surface tension effects -- Introduction to microflows -- Stability and transition -- Turbulent flows.