Vorticity and Incompressible Flow

'… one of the very few good books that centres on the rigorous mathematical theory of vorticity and incompressible flow … extremely well written and compelling reading … the contents and the cost of this book certainly makes it a good purchase for experienced theoretical fluid dynamists'. D. B. Ingham, Contemporary Physics

• Preface; 1. An introduction to vortex dynamics for incompressible fluid flows; 2. The vorticity-stream formulation of the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations; 3. Energy methods for the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations; 4. The particle-trajectory method for existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Euler equation; 5. The search for singular solutions to the 3D Euler equations; 6. Computational vortex methods; 7. Simplified asympototic equations for slender vortex filaments; 8. Weak solutions to the 2D Euler equations with initial vorticity in L∞; 9. Introduction to vortex sheets, weak solutions and approximate-solution sequences for the Euler equation; 10. Weak solutions and solution sequences in two dimensions; 11. The 2D Euler equation: concentrations and weak solutions with vortex-sheet initial data; 12. Reduced Hausdorff dimension, oscillations and measure-valued solutions of the Euler equations in two and three dimensions; 13. The Vlasov-Poisson equations as an analogy to the Euler equations for the study of weak solutions; Index.