Good introductory book on fluid dynamics

"An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics" by G. K. Batchelor is a classic and is considered as the Bhagavad Gita of fluid dynamics. I have read this book as an undergrad and hence the knowledge required is just high school mathematics and physics.

Recent texts, in my opinion, are unfortunately biased too much towards computational fluid dynamics, than explaining the mathematical and physical underpinning of the fluid dynamics.


Besides Batchelor, A Mathematical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by Chorin and Marsden is very good and concise. I think it's well suited for a math student, as opposed to most books which have a more engineering flavor.


You've probably found the books you need now. Anyhow 'The Introduction to computational fluid dynamics' by Versteeg is very good.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7504135/An-Introduction-to-Computational-Fluid-Dynamics-Versteeg