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Flow of Compressible Fluids

Mathematical Theory of Compressible Fluid Flow

By Richard von Mises. Completed by Hilda Geiringer and G. S. S. Ludford (Applied Mathematics and Mechanics: a Series of Monographs prepared under the auspices of the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University.) Pp. xiii + 514. (New York: Academic Press, Inc.; London: Academic Books, Ltd., 1958.) 15 dollars.

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JONES, W. Flow of Compressible Fluids. Nature 184, 485–486 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184485a0

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