Extending the theme from the last post, let's examine Cambridge University Press's books in fluid mechanics. I daresay that nowadays, they are the foremost publisher in this field. In addition to the books discussed below, they publish the foremost journal in the business, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
Of course, many of Cambridge's fluid mechanics books have appeared in the "red" series Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, already discussed in the last post. Let's begin this one with a snapshot of some of their non-series books in my personal collection.
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Cambridge University Press fluid mechanics books in my collection. |
The books by Batchelor, Lamb, and Drazin & Reid pictured above are acknowledged classics. To that list I should add George Batchelor's The Theory of Homogeneous Turbulence (1953, second edition 1970), C. C. Lin's The Theory of Hydrodynamic Stability (1955), and Waves in Fluids (1978) by James Lighthill. In the more contemporary era, the turbulence texts by Stephen B. Pope (Turbulent Flows) and Mathieu & Scott (An Introduction to Turbulent Flow) are notable, as is the 2004 A Gallery of Fluid Motion, which features a selection of award-winning photos from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics' so-named annual competition. Cambridge also has multiple books in transport phenomena and astrophysical fluid dynamics.
Of particular note is their series, Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, which began in 1952. Many of the entries are now long out of print, though the series continues to be active today, with the next volume scheduled for publication next year. I'm not sure how many total books have appeared in the series, but the "Applied Mathematics" part of the series' title has been dropped for some time. Like the Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics "red series" discussed in the last post, the titles and authors in this series are notable; in fact many are shared with that series. Both series range beyond just fluid mechanics, but I'll focus on fluid mechanics in this post. Here are the volumes from that series in my personal collection.
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Family portrait of the Cambridge Monographs in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics in my personal collection. |
Like the "red series", these books have a uniform livery: dark blue hardcovers, with green dust jackets; the paperbacks have green covers mimicking the hardbacks' dust jackets. For this reason I refer to them as the "green series" in contrast to the "red series". Aside from those pictured, other notable entries include Buoyancy Effects in Fluids, by J. S. Turner, The Structure of Turbulent Shear Flow, by A. A. Townsend, The Fluid Mechanics of Large Blood Vessels, by Tim Pedley, and Magnetoconvection, by N. O. Weiss and M. R. E. Proctor. The Drazin & Reid monograph, Hydrodynamic Stability, shown in the first photo above, originally appeared in the "green series" as well; sadly its reprints do not feature the green livery of its siblings.
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