Introduction to the Mechanics of Incompressible Fluids

Michel O. Deville is an Emeritus Professor of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne). He was the director of the Computational Engineering Laboratory dedicated mainly to Computational Fluid Dynamics. He has been consultant for ONERA, the French aerospace lab, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Computers and Fluids. He taught Fluid Mechanics courses over two decades to Mechanical Engineering and Physics students.

• Incompressible Newtonian Fluid Mechanics.- Dimensional Analysis.- Exact Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations.- Vorticity and Vortex Kinematics.- Stokes Flow.- Plane Irrotational Flows of Perfect Fluid.- Boundary Layer.- Instability.- Turbulence.- Solutions of the Exercices.- Index.