Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

✍ Scribed by Nakayama, Y.; Boucher, R.F.

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fluid mechanics is one of the most difficult core courses encountered by engineering students. The problem stems from the necessity of visualizing complex flow patterns and fluid behaviour modeled by high-level mathematics. This text overcomes this difficulty by introducing the concepts through everyday examples before moving on to the real phenomena and is illustrated with numerous figures and photographs.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Interactive Graphs Table  (17) 1. History of Fluid Mechanics
2. Characteristics of a Fluid
3. Fluid Statics
4. Fundamentals of Flow
5. One-Dimensional Flow: Mechanism for Conservation of Flow Properties
6. Flow of Viscous Fluid
7. Flow in Pipes
8. Flow in a Water Channel
9. Drag and Lift
10. Dimensional Analysis and Law of Similarity
11. Measurement of Flow Velocity and Flow Rate
12. Flow of an Ideal Fluid
13. Flow of a Compressible Fluid
14. Unsteady Flow
15. Computational Fluid Dynamics
16. Flow Visualisation
• Answers to Problems
• List of Symbols
• Index