Perturbation Methods in Fluid Mechanics

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Techniques for treating regular and singular perturbations are illustrated by application to problems of fluid motion. In particular, the method of matched asymptotic expansions is applied to the aerodynamics of airfoils and wings, and to viscous flow at high and low Reynolds numbers. Other topics include the methods of strained coordinates and of multiple scales, and the improvement of series.

Reviews Perturbation Methods in Fluid Mechanics (1975) 271+xiv pp., by Milton Van Dyke

An Album of Fluid Motion

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Over 400 beautiful black-and-white photographs, collected from around the world, illustrate the great diversity of fluid motion. Flows ranging from creeping to hypersonic speeds, in both the laboratory and Nature, are observed directly, or made visible using smoke, ink, bubbles, particles, shadographs, schlieren, interferometry,, and other techniques. Succinct captions describe the essential features of each flow.

Reviews An Album of Fluid Motion (1982) 176 pp, assembled by Milton Van Dyke

Stories From a 20th-Century Life

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One of the leading aeronautical engineers of our time has written a delightful autobiography in the form of a stream of anecdotes -- from a boyhood in Minnesota, through graduate study at Caltech, to chief of aerodynamics at Northrop during World War II, and on to found the Graduate School of Aeronautical Engineering at Cornell. He includes a full chapter of stories -- "some of them true" -- about his mentor Theodore von Karman.

Reviews Stories from a 20th-Century Life (1994), 292+xi pp., by William Rees Sears