8: Fluid Mechanics
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This chapter describes the basic notions of fluid mechanics, discusses a few core problems of statics and dynamics of ideal and viscous fluids, and gives a very brief, rather superficial review of such a complicated phenomenon as turbulence. In addition, the viscous fluid flow discussion is used as a platform for an elementary introduction to numerical methods of the partial differential equation solution - whose importance extends well beyond this particular field.