The main course text is Kundhu and Cohen, 4th edition, 2007. Older versions should be fine, but you'll have to dig a bit if equation numbers have changed etc.
Kundhu and Cohen is good, but falls into the overly-abstract and mathematical style of physics textbook. Don't let this discourage you - in order to gain intuition, it is often useful to concoct simple examples and see if your intuition is correct.
Other texts
- Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, 1967, is the classic in the field. (on course reserve) This book is quite mathematical, but also very verbose, with a lot of the intuition explained in great prose.
- Acheson, Fluid dynamics is a good text I learned from in graduate school (on course reserve)
- Lamb, Hydrodynamics, 1867, is a tough read, but a classic. (on course reserve and online.)
Last Modified: September 6, 2011
Jody Klymak - jklymak@uvic.ca