Applied Fluid Mechanics: Tasos C. Papanastasiou, Prentice-Hall (International Series in the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences), Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994, 608 pages, $70.00
✍ Scribed by Ryoichi S. Amano
- Book ID
- 103927459
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-1777
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✦ Synopsis
Applied Fluid Mechanics offers comprehensive coverage of the fluid mechanics for materials processing and lubrication. In order to better present these subjects, several chapters are devoted to topics of theology and non-Newtonian fluids, which are rarely covered in books on fluid mechanics. Although the book is dedicated to both engineers in these fields and undergraduate students who already have taken an introductory-level course on fluid mechanics, this book can also be a text for first-level graduate students who are learning lubrication, materials processing, and other similar subjects.
Chapter 1 contains a discussion of the basic concepts of laminar and turbulent flows and dimensional analysis as well as topics that are usually covered in most fluid mechanics texts such as fluid properties, equations of state, stresses, surface tension, capillary pressure, and so on. This is why this book is already considered to be an intermediate-level text as far as rheology, lubrication, and materials processing are concerned. One of the book's shortcomings is that it does not have enough physical property tables. Readers are expected to have this information from other sources.
Chapter 2 covers fluid statics. This chapter starts with rigid body rotation followed by pressure forces, buoyancy forces, and hydrostatics of fluid interfaces, including capillary effect.
Chapter 3 summarizes mass, energy, and momentum balances. This is one of the few books that does not use the Reynolds transport theorem to describe the conservation laws of fluid mechanics. Some examples include fundamental velocity profiles for non-Newtonian fluids.
Chapter 4 combines typical viscous pipe flows and flows over an immersed body and adds the subjects of atomization, sprays, flows in porous media, fluidized beds, two-phase flows, and viscous compressible flows. Both positive-displacement pumps and centrifugal pumps are also introduced here.
It is interesting to see that, considering the breadth of applications covered, differential equations are not introduced until Chapter 5. The author's intention may be for the readers who do not want to study differential equations to be able to still digest most of the material by