A tribute to Wiley's fluid mechanics books

Let's now consider the fluid mechanics books published by John Wiley & Sons.  They are particularly strong in the markets for widely used engineering textbooks.  For instance, they publish the successors to both the Fox & McDonald and Munson, Young, & Okiishi introductory fluid mechanics texts, each on their 9th editions at the time of writing.  They also publish multiple texts in heat & mass transfer, including the classic Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot, pictured below.

Representative Wiley fluid mechanics books in my personal collection.

The Handbook of Fluid Dynamics and Fluid Machinery seen on the left was published in 1996.  It seems unlikely such a behemoth will ever be published again, by any publisher.  Gulf's Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics was published between the mid 1980s and mid 1990s, for a total of 13 volumes, probably setting the record for largest fluid mechanics reference work.  The most recent such reference work I know of is CRC Press's Handbook of Fluid Dynamics (2016), which appears in a single volume.

Ronald Panton's Incompressible Flow is a favorite upper-level textbook, now in its fourth edition.  The red and white livery of the second edition, seen above, reminds me of the similar livery of its Wiley sibling, Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics 2/e, which you can see in this earlier post.  Also seen above is Lex Smits' introductory textbook, and the first of Hunter Rouse's 2-volume series of hydraulics texts.

Wiley keeps in print two classic monographs on waves:  J. J. Stoker's 1957 Water Waves:  The Mathematical Theory with Applications (currently available as a Wiley Classics Edition, but also in a much less expensive Dover reprint), and G. B. Whitham's 1974 Linear and Nonlinear Waves, published as part of Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley Series of Texts, Monographs and Tracts.  Similarly, Wiley has several key books on gas dynamics, including Zucrow & Hoffman's two volume Gas Dynamics (1976), and the more modern Zucker & Biblarz, Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics, now in its 3d edition (2019).  Marcello Lappa has published two monographs with Wiley:  Thermal Convection (2010) and Rotating Thermal Flows in Natural and Industrial Processes (2012).