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| A Mathematical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (Texts in Applied Mathematics) | 
| Authors: Alexandre J. Chorin, Jerrold E. Marsden
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
List Price: $84.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 818519
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 172
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0387979182
Dewey Decimal Number: 532
EAN: 9780387979182
ASIN: 0387979182
Publication Date: June 16, 2000
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Condition: 3rd edition. Hardcover. Slight shelf wear. Brand new, never used. Ships the next business day, with tracking and delivery confirmation sent to your email.
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Product Description
The goal of this text is to present some of the basic ideas of fluid mechanics in a mathematically attractive manner, to present the physical background and motivation for some constructions that have been used in recent mathematical and numerical work on the Navier-Stokes equations and on hyperbolic systems and to interest some of the students in this beautiful and difficult subject. The third edition has incorporated a number of updates and revisions, but the spirit and scope of the original book are unaltered.
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 Stay away from this January 18, 2002
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
I've taken a 3rd year undergraduate fluid mechanics course and we've used this as our textbook. It was a complete disaster. Let me start by saying this book pays absolutely no respect to its readers - it's filled not only with typos (and lots of them!) but also with very flimsy arguments. Now, whenever I do not understand an argument I usually think that I did not get it, or perhaps I do not understand the material enough, or that I simply have to fill in the gaps - but in this book, there are no gaps, the arguments are just lousy. Some steps even seem to be wrong, and I say that after debating them for a long while with my friends. I strongly recommend you eye this book with great suspicion.
 A clean and fast presenation of fluid mechanics. January 25, 1998
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
An ideal book for the applied mathematician and mathematical physicist. This little text is deceptive in scope, covering the constitutive equations of motion, vorticity, and up through problems in gas dynamics. The book is also quite appropriate for self study, even more beneficial if studied in conjunction with G.K. Batchelor's classic text "An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics" for additional physical insight. Overall Marsden and Chorin have developed a classic introductory text.
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