Mechanics of Fluids, Eighth Edition

✍ Scribed by Ward-Smith, John

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 710
• Edition: 8th ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Massey has long been a best-selling textbook. This extensively revised and updated eighth edition, like its predecessors, presents the basic principles of the mechanics of fluids in a thorough and clear manner. It provides the essential material for an honours degree course in civil or mechanical engineering, in addition to providing much relevant material for undergraduate courses in aeronautical and chemical engineering. Emphasis is given to a sound physical understanding of fluid flow and its engineering applications, rather than to mathematical techniques. Students are introduced systemati. Read more...

Abstract: Massey has long been a best-selling textbook. This extensively revised and updated eighth edition, like its predecessors, presents the basic principles of the mechanics of fluids in a thorough and clear manner. It provides the essential material for an honours degree course in civil or mechanical engineering, in addition to providing much relevant material for undergraduate courses in aeronautical and chemical engineering. Emphasis is given to a sound physical understanding of fluid flow and its engineering applications, rather than to mathematical techniques. Students are introduced systemati

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Book Cover
Half-Title
Series Title
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Contents
Preface to the eighth edition
1. Fundamental concepts
2. Fluid statics
3. The principles governing fluids in motion
4. The momentum equation
5. Physical similarity and dimensional analysis
6. Laminar flow between solid boundaries
7. Flow and losses in pipes and fittings
8. Boundary layers,wakes and other shear layers
9. The flow of an inviscid fluid]
10. Flow with a free surface
11. Compressible flow of gases
12. Unsteady flow
13. Fluid machines
Appendix 1. Units and conversion factors Appendix 2.. Physical constants and properties of fluidsAppendix 3. Tables of gas flow functions
Appendix 4. Algebraic symbols
Answers to problems
Index