| View Larger Image | Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability (International Series of Monographs on Physics (Oxford, England).) | Paperbackby S. Chandrasekhar (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Dover Publications | | Edition: | Dover Edth Edition | | Page Count: | 704 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 01, 1981 | | Sales Rank: | 368,630th |
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Product Description
The Nobel laureate’s monumental study surveys hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability as a branch of experimental physics. Among the subjects treated: thermal instability of a layer of fluid heated from below, the Benard problem, stability of Couette flow, and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 5 reviews)
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Worst book on hydrodynamic stability! by A. I. Haque  1 Stars
November 01, 2009
Unless you plan to use this book as a paperweight, don't bother buying it. This important topic has been treated so poorly by so many authors that I wonder if anyone really understands hydrodynamic stability. Drazin and Reid's book is slightly better. Unless you are working in this field of study, it would be difficult to get much out of these books. Sorry for being so negative about it, but I've sifted through many books and journal articles and have found few clear explanations.
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Book on Hydrodynamic by Banibrata Mukhopadhyay (Cambridge, MA USA)  5 Stars
October 27, 2005
This is one of the classic books written by Chandrasekhar. This is
extremely helpful for the people working on Hydrodynamic and
Hydromagnetic Stability.
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Most affordable of the classics on hydrodynamic stability 5 Stars
July 21, 2000
This is one of the standard monographs on hydrodynamic instabilities, considered a classic. It was published by Oxford UP in 1961 and is kept in print (at a bargain price) by Dover. It is still very usable, easy to read, and an excellent introduction, although on some points it is out of date. For Rayleigh-Benard convection, a reader would do well to consult more recent books like Drazin & Reid, Swinney & Gollub, Koschmieder, and Getling. However, nobody covers the linear theory better than Chandrasekhar.
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A practical, beautiful masterpiece 5 Stars
February 07, 2000
I first read this book just to better understand a small point in a fluid dynamics paper I was reading, but quickly realized it is an encyclopaedic masterpiece, and found myself reading more and more. Chandasekhar's explanations are clear, easily readable, and complete, and should be a model for other writers. Anyone working on fluids should own this.
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A practical, beautiful masterpiece 5 Stars
February 07, 2000
I first read this book just to better understand a small point in a fluid dynamics paper I was reading, but quickly realized it is an encyclopaedic masterpiece, and found myself reading more and more. Chandasekhar's explanations are clear, easily readable, and complete, and should be a model for other writers. Anyone working on fluids should own this.
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