`... original photographs of flow visualization are well reproduced. There are also interesting, informative, and appealing historical footnotes. In general the text is easy to read. This book will form essential introductory reading for those entering the field.' Journal of Fluid Mechanics

• A. Nominally two-dimensional cylinder in an almost disturbance-free flow ; 1. Conceptual overview ; 2. Steady laminar wake ; 3. Periodic laminar wake ; 4. Transition in a wake ; 5. Transition in free shear layers or subcritical state ; 6. Transition in boundary layers or critical state ; 7. Post-critical or fully turbulent state ; A. References ; B. Theoretical models ; 8. Solutions of equations of viscous fluid flow ; 9. Boundary layer theory ; 10. Free-streamline models ; 11. Vortex models and stability ; 12. Vortex-sheet moelds ; 13. Miscellaneous models ; B. References ; C. Real flow effects ; 14. Free-stream turbulence ; 15. Shear flow ; 16. Compressible flow ; 17. Heat transfer ; 18. Aerodynamic sound ; 19. Cavitation ; 20. Non-Newtonian fluid ; C. References