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sai2020
Oct15-09, 11:12 AM
Hi,

I'm taking a Fluid Mechanics course. The lecturer is very closely (letter to letter) following the book by Kundu and Cohen (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0123737354/).

I think K&C has a bunch of isolated derivations with no examples or solved problems. The 'examples' they do have are just a part of the text and when I get to the exercises I'm totally flabbergasted..

I was wondering if there were any other better books meant for physicists? Engineering books apparently don't even deal with tensors but are just as thick..

TIA!
Sai

MaxManus
Jan24-10, 06:57 PM
Now it is my turn to take fluid mechanics and we use Kundu/Cohen. Did you find any books with solved problems?

I am thinking about buying Schaums Fluid mechanics and hydraulics. The people on amazon.com gives it good reviews, but do the two books fit?

sai2020
Jan24-10, 10:36 PM
Well there was this '2500 solved problems' series book. The Schuam's outline is quite nice too. I just used them from the library. Only some questions are relevant to us. The rest are engineering stuff. Also James Lighthill's 'Informal Introduction to Fluid Mechanics' helped..

MaxManus
Jan25-10, 05:27 PM
Thanks