Introductory Fluid Mechanics book.

[SherlockOhms]

Main Question or Discussion Point

Could someone recommend me a good Introductory Fluid Mechanics book? It's only an introductory course so it doesn't have to be too comprehensive at all. Thanks.

 

[pasmith]

I can recommend David Acheson's Elementary Fluid Dynamics.

There's also G K Batchelor's classic Introduction to Fluid Dyanamics, but I personally prefer Acheson.

 

[SherlockOhms]

Brilliant. I'll have a look into both. Thanks.

 

[SherlockOhms]

Actually, it's a general Fluid Mechanics book that I'm interested in. Not exclusively dynamics, but some statics too. Anybody else have some suggestions?

 

[jasonRF]

Prof. Fitzpatrick at UT Austin has his lecture notes (really is a book!) on his teaching web page:

http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching.html

The book is at the uppder division undergrad level, and has an early chapter is on hydrostatics.

jason

 

[SherlockOhms]

Thanks. I'll have a look!

 

[imiuru]

Since you are looking for general reading, I recommend Fox and McDonald's Introduction to fluid mechanics by Philip J.Pritchard.

 

[SherlockOhms]

I'll look into it. Thanks.