Prandtl's Essentials of Fluid Mechanics, Second Edition . Edited by H ERBERT O ERTEL , with contributions by M. B ÖHLE , D. E TLING , U. M ÜLLER , K. R. S REENIVASAN , U. R IEDEL & J. W ARNATZ . Translated by K ATHERINE M AYES . Springer, 2004. 723 pp. ISBN 0 387 40437 6. £61.50