Engineering Fluid Mechanics

✍ Scribed by H. Yamaguchi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 579
• Series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications 85
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is intended for advanced engineering students in university or college and could serve as a reference for practical engineers. In recent years the development of fluid machineries has required a wider range of study in order to achieve a new level of developmental and conceptual progress. The field of fluid engineering is quite diverse in the sense that so many variations of flow exist in fluid machinery or an installation, whose characteristics are wholly dependent upon the flow field which is det- mined by the function of the machine setting itself. One who is studying fluid engineering, for the purpose of gaining a working knowledge of fluid machineries and their relevant installations, must understand not only the type of fluids used in practice, but also the fundamental flow problems - sociated with actual fluid machineries. Hence, the intended purpose of this book is to provide the fundamental and physical aspects of fluid mechanics and to develop engineering practice for fluid machineries. The subject of fluid engineering is most often approached at the senior undergraduate or postgraduate level of study. At this stage, the student or practical engineer is assumed to already have a basic mathematical ba- ground of vector and tensor analysis with a fair understanding of elem- tary fluid mechanics, such as Bernoulli equation, potential flow, and Poiseuille flow.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-3
Fundamentals in Continuum Mechanics....Pages 5-42
Conservation Equations in Continuum Mechanics....Pages 43-71
Fluid Static and Interfaces....Pages 73-113
Perfect Flow....Pages 115-223
Compressible Flow....Pages 225-277
Newtonian Flow....Pages 279-397
Non-Newtonian Fluid and Flow....Pages 399-496
Magnetic Fluid and Flow....Pages 497-542
Back Matter....Pages 543-573

✦ Subjects

Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Mechanical Engineering; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Soft Matter, Complex Fluids; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials