Table of Contents

1: The dynamical equations
2: Water waves
3: Viscosity
4: Vortices
5: Instability
6: Turbulence
7: Drag and lift

About the Author

Olivier Darrigol is Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His previous book, Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein (OUP 2000), won the Marc-Auguste Pictet prize of the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve in 2000. In 2004, he was awarded the Grammaticakis-Neumann prize of the French Academy of Sciences.

Reviews

`This book deserves a place in every university library, and it will surely be read with much interest, and some surprise, by many applied mathematicians.'
Alex D.D. Craik, University of St Andrews, The London Mathematical Society Newsletter 2006
`The book is a valuable contribution to its subject and is likely to provide new and perhaps useful insights to those studying fluid dynamics. It is well written and produced.'
D.H. Peregrine, Mathematical Reviews
`By presenting in detail the interactions between many mathematicians and engineers, and by emphasizing the different styles characteristic of scientists in different countries, Darrigol has provided a fascinating insight into the development of hydrodynamics.'
J. Stewart Turner, Australian National University, Canberra, August 2006, Physics World 2006
`A fascinating and well written book.'
Meccanica 2007