Fluid Mechanics

Very good

Kundu Fluid Mechanics text book is a very good general material of Fluid mechanics for Master level students. It covers everything from basic fluid mechanics terms to the CFD, compressible flows, turbulence, shear flows and finally Bio fluid mechanics. The material is clear and nice to understand. Highly recommended to anyone starting his specialization in Fluid Mechanics field.

This is the best book for a grad student who wants to start learning the advanced topics in fluid mechanics. This is the best book to read after Munson and is much easier and much more useful than Batchelor. Most of the concepts are very nicely explained and there is a strong emphasis on understanding the physics of each phenomenon. There is an introductory part on continuum mechanics which is very helpful. This book is almost error free although a lot of equations are presented in the book.

I found the coverage excellent. I was originally reading another text, but that book left out critical material that makes its presentation fuzzy (which is why I looked at this book instead). This book is excellent in that it builds up all the necessary machinery from first principles and explains things in a way that someone without any prior knowledge in fluids can understand the material.

I used this book in a graduate level course. I don't think it was good enough. The good part is that it is quite descriptive and has interesting stuff, but not deep enough.

This book claims to be an introduction to fluids. If so, it is the worst introduction I have seen. While other books are trying to get the student to understand what viscosity is or how to calculate presure with depth in a fluid, this book is literally teaching Eigenvectors of a Symmetric Tensor. This book may have a place but it is not as an introductory text. If you want a good introductory text, buy Frank White's book.