Cette édition, publiée par Dover en 1981, est la reproduction intégrale de la 3ème impression (1970) de l'édition originale, parue en 1961 chez Clarendon Press

Notes bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Index

I. Basic concepts II. The thermal instability of a layer of fluid heated from below 1. The Bénard problem III. The thermal instability of a layer of fluid heated from below 2. The effect of rotation IV. The thermal instability of a layer of fluid heated from below 3. The effect of a magnetic field V. The thermal instability of a layer of fluid heated from below 4. The effect of rotation and magnetic field VI. The onset of thermal instability in fluid spheres and spherical shells VII. The stability of couette flow VIII. The stability of more general flows between coaxial cylinders IX. The stability of couette flow in hydromagnetics X. The stability of superposed fluids: the Rayleigh-Taylor instability XI. The stability of superposed fluids: the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability XII. The stability of jets and cylinders XIII. Gravitational equilibrium and gravitational instability XIV. A general variational principle