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Preface Moodle and other references

Besides this document, the main resource for this unit is the Moodle page. Links to the video recordings, course notes, and other resources are collected there.
There are countless fluid mechanics or fluid dynamics courses and textbooks, and for the most part, the development of a first course on fluid dynamics tends to be quite similar between universities and treatments. If you would like additional references, here are a few useful ones.
However, note that our goal is to be as self-sufficient as possible via the lecture notes.
  • David Acheson’s (1990) book Elementary fluid dynamics [4]: a significant part of this course follows some of the now-classic treatments that would have been developed simultaneous to the design of this book by Acheson (often used by Oxford UG students). It is written in quite an informal style.
  • Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Online, edited by G. M. Homsy [1]: a collection of videos and explanations of various fluid mechanics phenomena. This is an online resource available through the University of Bath library system.
  • Milton Van Dyke’s (1982) book "An album of fluid motion" [3]: a classic album showing beautiful black and white images of fluid motion. Published by an iconic private press and sold (by design by Van Dyke) at affordable prices!
  • Kreyszig, E. (2007) book "Advanced engineering mathematics" [2] covers all the necessary essentials in terms of Vector Calculus and Complex Variables. This is one of my favourite reference texts for mathematical methods just on account of how straightfoward it is. Despite the "engineering" in the title, the style of presentation here fits in well with the style of UK applied mathematics.