A tribute to Oxford University Press's fluid mechanics books

Here I will continue my series of tributes to book publishers in fluid dynamics with a look at Oxford University Press.  Their books in this field have an impressive pedigree, beginning with the 1938 publication of the 2-volume Modern Developments in Fluid Dynamics:  An Account of Theory and Experiment Relating to Boundary Layers, Turbulent Motion and Wakes.  This cornerstone in the history of fluid mechanics was written by the Fluid Motion Panel of the U.K.'s Aeronautical Research Committee, later renamed the Aeronautical Research Council of Great Britain, and collaborators, and edited by Sydney Goldstein.  These books were reprinted in 1965 by Dover.  In 1951, the Council saw the need to amplify the original volumes, and added Modern Developments in Fluid Dynamics:  High Speed Flow (1953), also in two volumes, written by the Council's Fluid Motion Subcommittee, and collaborators, and edited by Leslie Howarth.  Oxford published all four of these volumes in its Oxford Engineering Science series (which is confusing to me, because they apparently had another, later series of the same name, which I wrote about previously).

Instead of continuing in the Oxford Engineering Science series, a new series was then planned by the British Aeronautical Research Council: The Fluid Motion Memoirs, also published by Oxford's Clarendon Press.  As far as I know, two volumes were published:  Incompressible Aerodynamics:  An Account of the Theory and Observation of the Steady Flow of Incompressible Fluid past Aerofoils, Wings, and other Bodies (1960), edited by Brian Thwaites, and Laminar Boundary Layers:  An Account of the Development, Structure and Stability of Laminar Boundary Layers in Incompressible Fluids, together with a description of the Associated Experimental Techniques, edited by Louis Rosenhead (1963).  A volume on turbulence was commissioned, but I'm not sure if it was ever published.  I also don't know if the Fluid Motion Memoirs continued beyond these volumes.

Meanwhile, in 1961, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar's Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability appeared in Oxford's International Series of Monographs in Physics.  This book was a landmark in the literature of hydrodynamic instability, and remains in print by Dover.  

With the superb foundation established by the publication of the above, Oxford has continued to contribute to the literature in this field up to the present.  I already mentioned McComb's turbulence monograph in an earlier post.   Oxford has another book on the subject of turbulence by P. A Davidson (whom we also met my post about the Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics).  Here are some other Oxford fluid mechanics books in my personal collection.

Some fluid mechanics books published by Oxford University Press.

The introductory texts by Acheson and Lighthill are classics, as is the monograph by Tritton, all pictured above. Acheson's text appears in the Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series.  Tritton's and Lighthill's books feature the livery of Oxford Science Publications, though Lighthill's is also included in the Institute of Mathematics and It Applications Monograph Series as its Volume 2.  The text by Bruus shown above belongs to the Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics.