This is the entrance page of Vincent Icke's web site
for the lecture series Practical
Hydrodynamics. Some related material may be found on my general
science page, my Planetary
Nebulae page, or by way of my main
web page. Readers are urgently requested to report factual
errors or broken links to me on my Leiden
email address.
Room:
J.H. Oort Building 470 Telephone local:
5843 Telephone in the Netherlands:
071 - 527 5843 Fax in the Netherlands:
071 - 527 5743 Telephone from abroad:
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Many typeset files on my site are given in PDF format. To read these files, you need the Acrobat PDF Reader, which is freeware from Adobe Systems, Inc.
As the course proceeds and develops, more material will be added here. You will occasionally find loose building blocks lying around. Not to worry, just use them to feed your curiosity.
A list of useful and interesting books on hydrodynamics and related subjects is presented here in PDF format. Most of them are very expensive, some are out of print (but there's a library for you!) The most useful ones are Landau & Lifschitz volume 6, which is a sine qua non for hydro professionals; Phil Roe's article in Ann.Rev.Fluid Mech. volume 18; and the Saas-Fee Advanced Course 27, by LeVeque, Mihalas, Dorfi and Müller. A very beautiful, cheap and complete book is the Dover edition of Lamb's Hydrodynamics.
The best general book on numerical hydrodynamics is, I think, Laney's Computational Gasdynamics.
I will present a similar list of useful books on the C programming language shortly. The sine qua non book here is Kernighan & Ritchie's The C Programming Language. Very useful are Plauger's The Standard C Library, and C: a Reference Manual by Harbison & Steele. Also good is Oualline's C Elements of Style.
There are some very interesting web sites on astrophysical hydrodynamics. If you find one that isn't listed here, tell me about it!
Some notes relevant to this course are attached here in PDF format. As always, please email me about any omissions or errors you find in this text!
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