by
Richard von Mises
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this text offers detailed considerations of general theorems, conservation equations, waves, shocks, and nonisentropic flows, with emphasis on the basics, both conceptual and mathematical. The general theory of characteristics receives a remarkably complete and simple treatment, with detailed applications. 175 figures. 1958 edition.