An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
With Applications in Chemical and Mechanical Process Engineering

This 1975 book presents the fundamental ideas of fluid flow, viscosity, heat conduction, diffusion, the energy and momentum principles, and the method of dimensional analysis.

J. M. Kay (Author), R. M. Nedderman (Author)

9780521098809, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 January 1975

340 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg

First published in 1975 as the third edition of a 1957 original, this book presents the fundamental ideas of fluid flow, viscosity, heat conduction, diffusion, the energy and momentum principles, and the method of dimensional analysis. These ideas are subsequently developed in terms of their important practical applications, such as flow in pipes and channels, pumps, compressors and heat exchangers. Later chapters deal with the equation of fluid motion, turbulence and the general equations of forced convection. The final section discusses special problems in process engineering, including compressible flow in pipes, solid particles in fluid flow, flow through packed beds, condensation and evaporation. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest the wider applications of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

Preface
List of symbols
Dimensionless ratios
1. Introduction and definitions
2. Fluid flow
3. The energy and momentum equations
4. Applications of the continuity, energy and momentum equations
5. Dimensional analysis applied to fluid mechanics
6. Flow in pipes and channels
7. Pumps and compressors
8. Heat conduction and heat transfer
9. Heat exchangers
10. Dimensional analysis applied to heat transfer
11. Heat transfer and skin friction in turbulent flow
12. Equations of motion for a viscous fluid
13. Boundary layers
14. Turbulent flow
15. Potential flow
16. Diffusion and mass transfer
17. The energy equation and heat transfer
18. Forced convection
19. Compressible flow in pipes and nozzles
20. Open-channel flow
21. Solid particles in fluid flow
22. Flow through packed beds and fluidized solids
23. Condensation and evaporation
Appendix 1. Engineer's guide to vector analysis
Appendix 2. Equations of motion for an inviscid fluid
Appendix 3. Vorticity and circulation
Appendix 4. Stress components in a viscous fluid and the equations of motion
Appendix 5. Laminar boundary-layer flow
Appendix 6. Heat transfer with laminar flow in a pipe
Appendix 7. Conversion factors
Examples
Outlines solutions
Index.

Subject Areas: Engineering: general [TBC]