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Chapters: John Batchelor, George Hargreaves, Rachel Reeves, Bill Boaks, Rushanara Ali, Lindsey German, Rainbow George Weiss, Richard Norton, 8th Baron Grantley, Monty Goldman, James Humphreys, Sylvia Dunn,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William John Batchelor (4 January 1959 - 11 April 2010), more commonly known as John Batchelor, was an English racing driver, businessman, political activist, and football investor. He was chairman of York City F.C. from 2002 to 2003, during which time he was also the owner of York City Racing, a motor racing team competing in the British Touring Car Championship. Batchelor was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, where he lived for a short period before moving to Surrey, Kent and Portugal due to his father's work. He received four O-Levels at school and had an exchange year in Oregon, United States, after which he sold insurance door-to-door in East Lancashire. He worked in this for nine months before selling cleaning products for five years, when he started "System Hygiene", a janitorial supplies company based in Accrington. He married Gillian in 1981 and the couple have had four children. He stood as a Common Sense Sick of Politicians candidate for Blackburn in the 1997 general election, coming in last place after winning 0.8% of the share with 362 votes. Following the election, through an open letter, he said "I extend my gratitude to the 362 voters in Blackburn who backed my campaign to take politics out of government. I would also like to point out that an additional 30,000 voters also offered me their support by being so sick of politicians that they abstained from voting at all. If we now add this figure to my votes and then subtract the votes of the 'winning' candidate it shows a 5,000-vote majority for tho...http://booksllc.net/?id=8206882 ... Read more

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A classic.
I remember being introduced to this book by my PhD advisor a few years ago. I asked for an itroductory course in Fluid Mechanics, and he simply said "We'll, that oughtta be Batchelor! It's an unmatched classic". Purchasing my own copy was just a matter of time. If you ever wondered how to familiarize yourself with the field, your search is over - this is a definitive, high-level, brilliantly written course with good mathematical background and a certain charm.

A great reference
I think that a proper name for this book should be something like: Aspects of Fluid Dynamics, and not Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. It is by no means an introduction, but it is also not a comprehensive book (for example, compressible flow is completely missing). Personally, I haven't done fluid dynamics for more than 20 years (after being a fluid dynamicist), so I re-read this book to refresh my knowledge. Therefore, it is hard for me to tell if a complete stranger to this field can master the book, but my bet is no. I also suspect that the author took for granted that the reader can guess the missing steps in many of the derivations; sometimes, the text looks like a survey, and all you can do is to try your luck in deriving yourself, or to find the proper reference. He also uses vector and tensor notations interchangeably, and sometimes is it a bit irritating.
Saying all these negative things (minus one star), I still consider it as an excellent book, and as an important reference.Written by a mathematician, the math is rigorous (also, I didn't find typos), and in addition, there are plenty of physical explanations. In addition to the regular derivation of the basic equations, the book presents various interesting phenomena (as expected from the editor of JFM); from drops in creeping flow, to rotating geophysical flow. Also, a comprehensive treatment of vorticity, and also a nice derivation of the added mass tensor in impulsive flow (although classical Lamb's Hydrodynamics does the best job on this issue).
To summarize, it is a mind stimulating book, some parts are really fun to read, it presents a wide range of phenomena, but it is not the proper book for novices in fluid dynamics.

Best Fluid Dynamics Book, Actually Not Introductory-level
This is the best book on fluid dynamics. But it is actually not an "introductory" level book, so the beginners are not advised to start from this book. Moreover, it may not even be an appropriate TEXTBOOK for some intermediate-level (graduate) fluid dynamics courses (but indeed an excellent book for interested readers).

This book is for those who determine to work on fluid dynamics and those who require a relatively high level in theory.

Fair introduction
Good introduction of many ideas in fluid mechanics. Good for reference, but it is not a good book for learning the subject. If in fact you happen to have a solid math background you may find it very boring but still has many references to more useful sources.

Good introduction
This book introduces lots of stuffs. I will consider it
as reference purpose. Not that good for learning, especially
for beginners. If one has another book as textbook already,
with this book, he can have more comprehensive thinkings
about fluid dynamics. It's a good book right on from
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