History of Fluid Mechanics

[Jeffrey Weiss]

Does anyone have any recommendations for a book on the history of
fluid mechanics? Thanks.

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Jeff
jwe...@ncar.ucar.edu

[Juan Restrepo]

jwe...@ncar.ucar.edu asks for books on the History of Fluid
Mechanics....

A book that contains very useful information is
"History of Hydraulics" H. Rouse and S. Ince
I don't have the rest of its coordinates. Although the book is on
hydraulics, some of the people who did hydraulics did dynamics as well
so you'll see relevance. This book does not go into any great depth
--pardon the dumb pun --, but it'll be a good starting point.
Two other books with bits of history are H. Lamb's Hydrodynamics book,
published by Dover, and Batchelor's Intro to Fluid Dynamics published
by Cambridge. Finally, I suggest a good book on the history of
mathematics would be another reference, for the 18th-19th century.

Juan

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Juan Restrepo
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory

[John Harper]

The Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics starts each volume with a historical
article, beginning in 1969. Many university libraries have it.

John Harper Mathematics Dept. Victoria University Wellington New Zealand

[Stuart W. Marlatt]

In article <1993Apr13.1...@ncar.ucar.edu> jwe...@paintbrush.cgd.ucar.edu (Jeffrey Weiss) writes:
>Does anyone have any recommendations for a book on the history of
>fluid mechanics? Thanks.

While not specifically addressing geo-fluids, John Andersons
_Modern Compressible Flow_ (McGraw-Hill) has a series of articles
about such illuminaries as the Bernoullis, Rayleigh, etc. Very
entertaining reading, though perhaps not the depth you seek.

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[Raghuram G Murtugudde]

Modern Compressible Flow with Historical Perspective by John D. Anderson
Jr. has bits of history at the end of each chapter.

Fluid Mechanics book by P. K. Kundu has a few words about G. I. Taylor and
his role. Annual Review in Fluid Mech has had several historical or
biographical articles over the years.