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- An affordable new softcover edition of a classic text
- Written by world-renowned experts in the field of fluid mechanics, including a co-founder of modern continuum mechanics
- Replete with exercises and their solutions
- Written at a level commonly taught to undergraduates in mathematics departments
- A large number of topics covered in a little over 250 pages
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics (MBC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
“The authors have backgrounds which are ideally suited for writing this book. ...They have produced a compact, moderately general book which encompasses many fluid models of current interest…The book is written very clearly and contains a large number of exercises and their solutions. The level of mathematics is that commonly taught to undergraduates in mathematics departments. This is an excellent book which is highly recommended to students and researchers in fluid mechanics.” (Mathematical Reviews)
“The writing style is quintessential Truesdellania: purely mathematical, breathtaking, irrepressible, irreverent, uncompromising, taking no prisoners...The book is filled with historical nuggets…Its pure, exact mathematics will baptize, enlighten and exhilarate.” (Applied Mechanics Review)
“The most positive aspect of this book is its brevity; a large number of topics are covered within the space of a little more than 250 pages.” (Current Science)
“This advanced monograph presents one of the best new views on the subject for those who like relative simplicity and certain abstractness combined with mathematical rigor and elegance…The book should be useful for graduates and researchers not only in applied mathematics and mechanical engineering but also in advanced materials science and technology…Each public scientific library as well as hydrodynamics hand libraries should own this timeless book…Everyone who decides to buy this book can be sure to have bought a classic of science and the heritage of an outstanding scientist.” (Silikáty)
“All applied mathematicians, mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers, and engineering mechanics graduates and researchers will find the book an essential reading resource for fluids.” (Simulation News Europe)
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The writing style is quintessential Truesdellania: purely mathematical, breathtaking, irrepressible, irreverent, uncompromising, taking no prisoners… The book is filled with historical nuggets… Its pure, exact mathematics will baptize, enlighten and exhilarate." (Applied Mechanics Review)
"The authors have backgrounds which are ideally suited for writing this book. The late C. Truesdell is well known for his monumental treatises on continuum thermomechanics. K. R. Rajagopal has made many important contributions to the mechanics of continua in general, and to nonlinear fluids in particular. They have produced a compact, moderately general book which encompasses many fluid models of current interest. … This is an excellent book which is highly recommended to students and researchers in fluid mechanics." (Mathematical Reviews)
Authors and Affiliations
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Baltimore, USA
C. Truesdell
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University Engineering Physics Building, College Station, USA
K. R. Rajagopal
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids
Authors: C. Truesdell, K. R. Rajagopal
Series Title: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4846-6
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4014-9Published: 28 December 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4845-9Published: 13 November 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-4846-6Published: 05 October 2010
Series ISSN: 2197-1803
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 278
Additional Information: Originally published in the series: Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology
Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics