An Album of Fluid Motion

1982 original cover of An Album of Fluid Motion
Editor	Milton Van Dyke
Language	English
Publisher	The Parabolic Press
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover, paper back)
Pages	175
ISBN	0-915760-02-9 (hardcover)

The book An Album of Fluid Motion is a collection of black-and-white photographs of flow visualizations for different types of fluid flows. ^{[1] [2]} These flows include:

• Creeping flow
• Laminar flow
• Flow separation
• Vortices
• Fluid instability
• Fluid turbulence
• Free-surface flow
• Natural convection
• Subsonic flow
• Shock waves
• Supersonic flow

The book was self-published by its editor, Milton Van Dyke, fluid mechanics professor at Stanford University.

Reviews

• Self-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? – Philip Morrison, Scientific American ^[3]
• All teachers of fluid mechanics should have a copy of this 'album' and should use it first to enlarge their own understanding and then that of their students. – G. K. Batchelor, Journal of Fluid Mechanics ^[4]
• This compilation, aptly entitled an "album" ... is a remarkable and magnificent achievement. – Charles Thurlow III, Chemical Engineering
• The educator finds beautiful and important illustrations for his lectures in fluid mechanics, and the student should also want to own the book. – N. Rott, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik
• Everybody with an interest in fluid dynamics, from freshman to expert, will enjoy and benefit from this book; everybody can afford to buy it; everybody should. – Peter Bradshaw, Contemporary Physics
• An Album of Fluid Motion is a lovely book and a rare bargain. It should be part of any physics library and many personal collections. – Jerry P. Golub, American Journal of Physics
• Neophyte or expert, student or practitioner, everyone will be enchanted by this book. I have seen a delighted reaction to it in those unfamiliar with the study of fluid motion, and I have also been approached by scientists with fingers pointed at pictures in the Album to prove a technical point. – Raul Conti, Journal of the Astronautical Sciences
• I cannot imagine a fluid dynamicist without this wonderful book. It should be required reading for all graduate students in the fluid thermal engineering field. – R. A. Granger, Ocean Engineering

References

1. "An Album of Fluid Motion". Goodreads. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
2. "An Album of Fluid Motion by Van Dyke, Milton: Good Softcover (1982) | Friends of the Multnomah County Library". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
3. Morrison, Philip; Van Dyke, Milton (1982). "Review of An Album of Fluid Motion, Van DykeMilton". Scientific American. 247 (4): 40–46. ISSN   0036-8733.
4. Batchelor, G. K. (February 1983). "An Album Fluid Motion. Assembled by MILTON VAN DYKE. Parabolic Press, 1982. 176 pp. 10 paperback". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 127: 562–563. doi:10.1017/S0022112083212888. ISSN   1469-7645.