Fluid Mechanics: Volume 6

I bought this book as a more advanced introduction to Fluid Dynamics after I had already taken a course in Fluid Dynamics during my early undergraduate career (and forgotten a good amount of it). Particularly, I was interested in learning more about turbulent flow, shockwaves, detonation, and more advanced topics in Fluid Dynamics for a course in the theory of supernovae. This book excellently and thoroughly covers these topics both in a mathematically sound and excellent way, as well as well-describing the phenomenology behind the explained topics. The book is simply, excellent, and most of the reviewers have already commented on the advantages of having a book that references thermodynamics very early on, that has solved example problems, and it covers a huge breadth of topics in excellent detail. I would not recommend this textbook to an undergraduate trying to learn fluid dynamics for the first time, unless they were very thorough and advanced in their coursework (probably a senior or junior level undergraduate looking to go on to study physics in graduate school). Excellent reference, excellent pedagogical writing style. I cannot say anything bad about this book!

It is the book on fluid mechanics I've enjoyed the most. It covers a wide range of subjects (ideal and viscous fluids, gas dynamics, turbulence, mass and heat transport, sound etc) in deep connection with thermodynamics. I've read Volume 5 as well and they make a good match of two masterpieces.

Excellent reference book of classical fluid mechanics. Highly recommended text for graduate students of fluid/aerodynamics, fluid mechanicians and applied physicists.

Landau was the master of Russian physics, his collection of books is fantastic. I have all his books in Italian language, but this one was never translated, so I bought it in English. Great book!

The book is often cited by other authors of fluid mechanics and explosion/shock wave work which is why I bought it. It makes a great reference book, yet is probably not the best choice for an introductory course. It is very complete in its development of topics and the problems/examples are all solved in straight forward approaches.

It is giving me an insight on the background of fluid mechanics with the flavor of physics that I need in a book. Very good!

Landau-Lifshitz "Course of Theoretical Physics" is, probably, one of the most important book series on theoretical physics. If you can find one printed in Britain, better.

Nice book. Very comprehensive. What else you expect to see from Lanau?

The best series ever. But only for deadly passionate and enthusiastic research students

Fantastic. The same content with acceptable print quality.

I'm a university researched in fluid dynamics, and this is the first book I go to when I need to look something up. It covers everything from the basics to more advanced topics I've been unable to find elsewhere (like for example the equations for a compressible viscous fluid). It's style is very straightforward and to the point. It's so good that, when I lost my previous copy, I had to buy another one.

Muchas Gracias, apesar que fue larga la esper, la entegra fue un excelente y el libro se encontro en buena condiciones. Saludos

Livro fantástico. Poucos livros tratam a mecânica dos fluidos de maneira tão formal e objetiva como este texto. Muito bem escrito e muito bem organizado. Depois de mais de 1 ano usando esta referência posso avaliar. Minha única crítica é em relação a tipografia usada com os símbolos do operador nabla trocado por "grad", "div" e "curl" mas faz sentido por ser um livro relativamente antigo, então isso é o de menos. Ótima aquisição.