<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: An ideal textbook for a physics course
Review: Because of its physics orientation, rather than math or engineering, I found Tritton ideal as a required textbook for a graduate physics course in fluid dynamics at UCBerkeley. Having gained insight from this book myself, I then shared my enjoyment with my students.
Rating: 
Summary: One of the most confusing books I've read
Review: It's unbelievable how confusing a fluid mechanics book can be. Tritton achieved to present fluid mechanics in a way that only mathematicians (with usually no interest in fluid mechanics) can comprehend. If you need to really understand fluid mechanics and not to continuously deal with divergences and curls, better look for another book.
Rating: 
Summary: nice examples
Review: The book has nice examples of experimental evidence to tie together the concepts.
Rating:
Summary: Not ideal for mathematicians
Review: This book is not ideal for mathematicians. It is written in the style of a physics book, with a large portion of the book devoted to experimental results; the theory is developed in the context of explaining these results, with little mathematical discussion of the resulting equations beyond asymptotic analysis. (This may be expected, given the word "Physical" in the title.)Overall it is a nice book. But the writing is not as clear as it could be. Some relevant properties of the example flows discussed are not stated explicitly, which I would discover by chance while working with the equations. Many of his derivations are also predicated by overly restrictive/unnecessary assumptions, with no mention of the behavior under other assumptions (although the problems require determining this in order to solve them). He leaves too much as an (often unstated) exercise for the reader. This is the reason I did not rate it five stars.
Rating:
Summary: Not ideal for mathematicians
Review: This book is not ideal for mathematicians. It is written in the style of a physics book, with a large portion of the book devoted to experimental results; the theory is developed in the context of explaining these results, with little mathematical discussion of the resulting equations beyond asymptotic analysis. (This may be expected, given the word "Physical" in the title.) Overall it is a nice book. But the writing is not as clear as it could be. Some relevant properties of the example flows discussed are not stated explicitly, which I would discover by chance while working with the equations. Many of his derivations are also predicated by overly restrictive/unnecessary assumptions, with no mention of the behavior under other assumptions (although the problems require determining this in order to solve them). He leaves too much as an (often unstated) exercise for the reader. This is the reason I did not rate it five stars.
Rating:
Summary: nice examples
Review: This book is one of the best books on fluid dynamics I have ever read. Definitely, it was written for phycisist looking for a deep understanding of the astonishing fluid behavior rather than for applications. The author carefully explains, with a lot of wonderful photographs and simple pictures, all the basic ideas and fundamental concepts behind fluid dynamics, ranging from the flow in a pipe, to atmospheric convection and solar granulation. I think that every physicist who wants to learn about the underlying physics of fluids, should read and enjoy this book.
<< 1 >>
| 
