Download or read book Essential Fluid Dynamics for Scientists written by Jonathan Braithwaite and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, essential for students and researchers in many branches of science. It illustrates its fundamental principles with a variety of examples drawn mainly from astrophysics and geophysics as well as from everyday experience. Prior familiarity with basic thermodynamics and vector calculus is assumed.