A First Course In Fluid Mechanics For Engineers

"This is a textbook for a first course in fluid mechanics taken by engineering students.The unique features of this textbook are that it: (1) focuses on the basic principles fluid mechanics that engineering students are likely to apply in their subsequent required undergraduate coursework, (2) presents the material in a rigorous fashion, and (3) provides many quantitative examples and illustrations of fluid mechanics applications. Students in all engineering disciplines where fluid mechanics is a core course should find this textbook stimulating and useful. In some chapters, the nature of the material necessitates a bias towards practical applications in certain engineering disciplines, and the disciplinary area of the author also contributes to the selection and presentation of practical examples throughout the text. In this latter respect, practical examples related to civil engineering applications are particularly prevalent"--

This dynamic book offers a clear insight into the field of fluid mechanics, taking an approach toward analyzing fluid flows that develops each subject from the theory of its basic laws to the illustration of actual engineering applications. The Fourth Edition features the most up-to-date applications of essential concepts as well as new coverage of the latest topics in the field today.

A First Course in Fluid Mechanics is primarily devoted to the application of the laws of Newtonian mechanics to solve complex problems in fluid motion. The topics discussed include fluid properties and their role in fluid motion; fluid statics; fluid kinematics; Euler’s equations and Bernoulli’s energy equation; forms of irrotational flows; property of viscosity and the Navier–Stokes equations of motion; turbulence. A chapter on dimensional analysis and model similitude is included to emphasise the need for guided experimentation, presentation of results in generalised forms and interpretation of results obtained on the model to the prototype.

Since 1999 ?A First Course in Fluid Mechanics for Civil Engineers? has been a popular course textbook, offering fewer topics but in greater depth. This expanded 2nd edition still features a civil engineering perspective which are the consistent stress on the concept of head and the use of the total and piezometric head lines as qualitative tools. Emphasis is placed on the Euler equation in natural coordinates and the parallel flow assumption. The Bernoulli equation, derived by integrating the Euler equation along a streamline, is carefully distinguished from the mechanical energy equation, in which loss terms appear. Open channel flow and hydraulic models are treated in more depth than is customary. To maintain a reasonable length, topics such as boundary layers, drag, lift, potential flow, hydraulic machines, pipe networks, computational fluid dynamics, and compressible flow have been condensed or omitted.This 2nd Edition is still intended for a one-semester introduction to fluid mechanics for majors in civil engineering and related fields such as environmental and agricultural engineering. Over the years, this textbook has confirmed the merit of an introductory textbook on fluid mechanics seen from the perspective of students whose main interest is incompressible flow in a gravitational field. While maintaining this approach, this 2nd Edition incorporates many improvements. Perhaps the most significant is the increase in the number of homework problems from 216 to 775, far more than are needed for a semester course, allowing instructors to maintain freshness from semester to semester. This set includes a wide range of problem types in order to appeal to diverse student interests and learning styles. Both SI and U.S. Customary units are used in the problems and throughout the text. A section on ?Advice to the Student? has been added to provide guidance on effective study habits. The perennially confusing topic of uncertainty and significant digits is explained in a new appendix. All of the examples are now set in boxes to make them easier to locate and reference. Clarifications have been made throughout the text to improve comprehension, and new figures and photographs have been added.

The modeling and simulation of fluids, solids and other materials with significant coupling and thermal effects is becoming an increasingly important area of study in applied mathematics and engineering. Necessary for such studies is a fundamental understanding of the basic principles of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. This book is a clear introduction to these principles. It is designed for a one- or two-quarter course for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the mathematical and engineering sciences, and is based on over nine years of teaching experience. It is also sufficiently self-contained for use outside a classroom environment. Prerequisites include a basic knowledge of linear algebra, multivariable calculus, differential equations and physics. The authors begin by explaining tensor algebra and calculus in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Using both index and coordinate-free notation, they introduce the basic axioms of continuum mechanics pertaining to mass, force, motion, temperature, energy and entropy, and the concepts of frame-indifference and material constraints. They devote four chapters to different theories of fluids and solids, and, unusually at this level, they consider both isothermal and thermal theories in detail. The book contains a wealth of exercises that support the theory and illustrate various applications. Full solutions to odd-numbered exercises are given at the end of each chapter and a complete solutions manual for all exercises is available to instructors upon request. Each chapter also contains a bibliography with references covering different presentations, further applications and numerical aspects of the theory. Book jacket.