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This work can be characterized as perfectly written lecture notes, which are an overview of multiscale analysis in fluid dynamics. The main discussion here concerns the following systems and equations: the system of Hamiltonian dynamics with a large number of unknowns, the Boltzmann equation, the different ``avatars'' of the Navier-Stokes equations, Euler equations and the models of turbulence. A very simple model of linear kinetic equation leading to a diffusion limit is given. It is shown that weak reversibility becomes strong irreversibility when the scaling parameter goes to zero. It turns out that the appearance of irreversibility related to weak convergence can be very well understood. One may see that in particular the role of the entropy for the well-posedness of the compressible Euler equation and the finite speed of propagation is described with some details. An instability result of Lions and DiPerna (1989) and the regularity result of Constantin and Feffermann (1993) which involve the regularity of direction of the vorticity in 3 space variable seem enough pertinent for the incompressible fluid equations to be given also with some details. Also it is shown how to derive the macroscopic equations from the Boltzmann equation by a convenient tuning of basic parameters which correspond to the Knudsen number, the Mach number and the Reynolds number. When the Boltzmann equation is derived from the molecular dynamics, then the emphasis is put on the fact that the nonlinearity or the binary interaction of particles leads to a notion of strong convergence which is not in contradiction with the appearance of irreversibility. The modeling of turbulence is considered as well. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00030].