Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals and Applications

Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications is written for the first fluid mechanics course for undergraduate engineering students, with sufficient material for a two-course sequence. This Third Edition in SI Units has the same objectives and goals as previous editions:

    Communicates directly with tomorrow's engineers in a simple yet precise manner

    Covers the basic principles and equations of fluid mechanics in the context of numerous and diverse real-world engineering examples and applications

    Helps students develop an intuitive understanding of fluid mechanics by emphasizing the physical underpinning of processes and by utilizing numerous informative figures, photographs, and other visual aids to reinforce the basic concepts

    Encourages creative thinking, interest and enthusiasm for fluid mechanics 

New to this edition

    All figures and photographs are enhanced by a full color treatment. New photographs for conveying practical real-life applications of materials have been added throughout the book.

    New Application Spotlights have been added to the end of selected chapters to introduce industrial applications and exciting research projects being conducted by leaders in the field about material presented in the chapter.

    New sections on Biofluids have been added to Chapters 8 and 9.

    Addition of Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam-type problems to help students prepare for Professional Engineering exams. 

Preface

Chapter 1Introduction and Basic Concepts

Chapter 2Properties of Fluids

Chapter 3Pressure and Fluid Statics

Chapter 4Fluid Kinematics

Chapter 5Bernoulli and Energy Equations

Chapter 6Momentum Analysis of Flow Systems

Chapter 7Dimensional Analysis and Modeling

Chapter 8Internal Flow

Chapter 9 Differential Analysis of Fluid Flow

Chapter 10Approximate Solutions of the Navier-stokes Equation

Chapter 11External Flow: Drag and Lift

Chapter 12Compressible Flow

Chapter 13Open-channel Flow

Chapter 14Turbomachinery

Chapter 15Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics

Appendix Property Table and Charts

Glossary

Index