Flow, Deformation and Fracture

Lectures on Fluid Mechanics and the Mechanics of Deformable Solids for Mathematicians and Physicists

af Grigory Isaakovich (University of California Barenblatt

An outstanding resource for every teacher and student of the mechanics of continuous media. The author's unique approach, using the concept of intermediate asymptotics, has been tried and tested over a period of forty years teaching the subject in Russia, Europe and America.