Fluid Mechanics Texts: White, Segel, Tritton, L&L, Aris

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The discussion centers on recommended texts for fluid mechanics, specifically highlighting "White," "Segel," "Tritton," "Lamb," and "Landau & Lifgarbagez." Users express a preference for Segel due to its accessibility and quality, while Tritton is criticized for lacking derivation in its results. Lamb is noted as a comprehensive but dense resource, and Landau & Lifgarbagez is acknowledged as a decent option but more expensive than Segel.

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What would you recommend as good texts. Here's what I've found searching the site:

White
Segel
Tritton
L&L
Aris
 
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I don't like White very much. I can't find Segel or Tritton anywhere. Any recommendations?
 
Segel is a Dover book and should be easy to find. Plus, it's very good.

Tritton, I did not like so much. Not exactly sure why... it seemed that results were just provided without any derivation, making it difficult to generalize results.

Lamb is the encyclopedia. Very dense and difficult to parse.

Landau and Lifgarbagez is fine, biu Segel is less expensive.
 

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