Applied Mathematical Sciences Volume 158 Editors S.S. Antman J.E. Marsden L. Sirovich Advisors J.K. Hale P. Holmes J. Keener J. Keller B.J. Matkowsky A. Mielke C.S. Peskin K.R.S. Sreenivasan Springer New York Berlin Heidelberg Hong Kong London Milan Paris Tokyo Herbert Oertel Editor Prandtl's Essentials of Fluid Mechanics Second Edition With Contributions by M. Bo¨hle, D. Etling, U. Mu¨ller, K.R.S. Sreenivasan, U. Riedel, and J. Warnatz Translated by Katherine Mayes With 530 Illustrations Springer Herbert Oertel Institut fu¨r Stro¨mungslehre Universita¨t Karlsruhe Kaiserstr. 12 Karlsruhe D-76131 Germany
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