Principles of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

This book provides an introduction for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students to the field of astrophysical fluid dynamics.

The series of volumes to which this book belongs honors contributors who have made a major impact in computational fluid dynamics. This fourth volume in the series is dedicated to David Caughey on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The first volume was published in 1994 and was dedicated to Prof Antony Jameson.

The chosen semi-discrete approach of a reduction procedure of partial differential equations to ordinary differential equations