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My main reservation about the book arises from the
fact that it gives the impression that the advent of the
digital computer has made virtually no impact on the solu-
tion of problems in fluid dynamics. Obviously this book
is not the place for a full account of numerical methods,
but I feel that it should have given more indications of
the considerable progress made in numerical studies of
fluid dynamics. For example, a photograph of the graphi-
cal display from Fromm's numerical solution of the un-
steady flow about a flat plate would have shown the power
of numerical methods, and have provided an interesting
comparison with Plate 2. Also, surely some reference
should have been made to the solution of potential prob-
lems by distributions of singularities on the body surface
since this is now the standard method of solving compli-
cated potential problems.
In spite of these remarks I thoroughly recommend this
book to students of fluid dynamics at all levels, particularly
as Cambridge University Press offer this large book of over
600 pages at the relatively low price of 75s.—L. C. SQUIRE.
Textbook of Fluid Dynamics. F. Chorlton. D. Van Nos-
trand Co Ltd. 1967. 399 pp. Figures. Students' Paperback
Edition. 35s.
This is a careful and painstaking undergraduate text-
book on mathematical aspects of fluid dynamics with many
worked examples and further examples for solution. The
mathematical treatment is based on vectorial methods
which are the subject of the first chapter. Cartesian tensors
are introduced briefly but are not used later in deriving,
for example, the relations between stress components and
rates-of-strain. The author is content to advertise the con-
ciseness of tensor notation by summarising some of the
main results in tensor form.
Additions to the Library
Additional Tables for SI Conversions, Suppl N o 1 (1967)
to British Standard 350: Part 2 : 1962. Conversion fac-
tors and tables Part 2 : Detailed conversion tables. P D
6203. 88 pp. 20s.
Advances in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 5. 1st
edition. KOPAL, Zdenek (Editor). Academic Press,
London. 1967. 355 pp. Figures. 128s. The first volume
of this series was reviewed in the March 1963 JOURNAL
(p 196), and successive volumes have been noted in
Additions to the Library. The fifth volume contains
Secular variation of mass and the evolution of binary
systems, compact and dispersed cosmic matter, the
periodicity of the sun spot groups, the zodiacal light and
three-dimensional periodic oscillations about Lx, L 2
and L3.
Amy Johnson. Constance Babington Smith. Collins, Lon-
don. 1967. 384 pp. Illustrations. 45s. To be reviewed.
Annual Report and Accounts, 1966-67, British Airports
Authority. 1967. 99 pp.
Bombers and Reconnaissance Aircraft, Vol VII. William
Green. Macdonald, London. 1967. 158 pp. Illustrated.
15s.
Bomber and Reconnaissance Aircraft, Vol VIII. William
Green. Macdonald, London. 1967. 159 pp. Illustrated.
15s.
Engineering Science at University. Donald Hutchings
(Editor). University of Oxford Department of Education.
1967. 238 pp. Aimed to provide sixth-formers, their
teachers and their parents with as much information on
applied science at the universities as they already have
on the pure sciences of chemistry, physics and mathe-
matics. Requirements and syllabuses are given for the
various engineering faculties of 40 universities and col-
leges of advanced technology in the United Kingdom.
Engineering in High Duty Materials. R. J. E. Glenn,
P. W. H. Howe, L. Islip and J. F. Barnes. University of
Nottingham. 1967. 128 pp. Figures. £4 4s. This
NOVEMBER 1967'
Chapters on the kinematics of inviscid fluids in motion
and the equations governing them are followed by two
chapters on incompressible fluids which treat the methods
of flow singularities and complex variables. A short chap-
ter on thermodynamics prefaces one on compressible fluids
which covers the elements of wave motion, shock waves,
and characteristics. The chapter on viscous flow is largely
taken up with the introduction of the Navier-Stokes equa-
tions and some of their particular solutions. Boundary
layers are given only the briefest mention. We may note
here that the student will have to do better than Fig. 8.13
in any oral examination. The correction necessary is left
as a simple exercise for that long-suffering gentleman.
The book ends with an interesting account of magneto-
hydrodynamics in which the author emphasises the parallels
with the classical topics treated earlier. It is marred slightly
by occasional muddles over whether the fluid under dis-
cussion is compressible or incompressible and at low or
high magnetic Reynolds number.
This book will appeal to the student who likes spoon-
feeding. (Mark you, his teacher will be happy to have him
on the Chorlton diet which is wholly nutritious.) The sub-
ject is carefully broken up into chewable pieces and with
so many illustrations of how to masticate he must learn
good manners. Errors left in proof reading are remarkably
few and even those in the final chapter should cause him
no trouble provided, of course, that after so much spoon-
feeding he is still able to exercise his own judgment. Let
me emphasise that in spite of this danger I recommend
the student to buy this modestly-priced book.
Finally, let us hope that if the student aims to profess
fluid dynamics he will support his study of this necessary
mathematics with another text emphasising the physics of
his subject.—E. A. BOYD.
collection of four lectures was presented in September
1967 at Nottingham University by members of the staff
of NGTE, Pyestock. As one might therefore expect,
most of the content relates specifically to gas turbine
applications of high duty materials. The second lecture
by P. W. H. Howe does, however, contain a treatment
of thermal fatigue and creep which is of general interest.
Experimental Stress Analysis. G. S. Holister. Cambridge
University Press. 1967. 322 pp. Illustrations. 90s. To
be reviewed.
The Helicopter and How It Flies. John Fay. Pitman
Paperbacks, London. 1967. 138 pp+photographs. Illus-
trated. 12s 6d. A paperback edition of the Second Edi-
tion noted in the Additions to the Library in March
1967.
Hydrofoils. Christopher Hook and A. C. Kermode. Pit-
man Paperbacks, London. 1967. 218 pp+photographs.
25s. A paperback version of the book reviewed in the
September 1967 JOURNAL (p 662).
Leonardo da Vinci's Aeronautics. Charles H. Gibbs-Smith.
HMSO, London. 1967. 40 pp. Illustrations. 3s 6d. One
of the Science Museum's invaluable series of booklets by
acknowledged authorities, this is the only modern work
in English dealing solely with Leonardo da Vinci's aero-
nautical achievements.
McCudden, VC. Christopher Cole. Wilhelm Kimber, Lon-
don. 1967. 363 pp plus 21 pp indexes. 50s. To be
reviewed.
Mathematical Theory of Control. A. V. Balakrishnam and
Lucien W. Neustadt (Editors). Academic Press, London.
1967. 459 pp. 112s. Based on papers presented at the
Conference on the Mathematical Theory of Control held
at the University of Southern California at the end of
January 1967. Among the topics highlighted were
Optimal Control Theory, Control Theory and Partial
Differential Equations, Differential Games, Stochastic
Control, Stability Theory.