Fluid Mechanics

Paperback edition of well written, highly recommended undergraduate fluid mechanics text.

David Pnueli (Author), Chaim Gutfinger (Author)

9780521587976, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 January 1997

520 pages, 305 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.83 kg

'The subject matter is presented in logical sequence, and the authors, very commendably, have not shied away from providing a thorough analysis wherever it is necessary, including a development of the Navier–Stokes equations, without in any way neglecting to explain the physical principles involved. In addition, each chapter contains useful and well thought out worked examples for the student to attempt … This text contains in a well written and in a concise way the fundamentals of modern fluid mechanics without becoming involved with particular applications.' The Aeronautical Journal

This text is intended for the study of fluid mechanics at an intermediate level. However, the presentation starts with basic ideas in order to form a sound conceptual structure that can support engineering applications and encourage further learning. Subjects treated include hydrostatics, viscous flow, similitude and order of magnitude, creeping flow, potential flow, boundary layer flow, turbulent flow, compressible flow, and non-Newtonian fluids.

1. Introduction
2. Stress in a fluid
3. Fluid statics
4. Fluids in motion - integral analysis
5. Fluids in motion - differential analysis
6. Exact solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations
7. Energy equations
8. Similitude and order of magnitude
9. Flows with negligible acceleration
10. High Reynolds number flows - regions far from solid boundaries
11. High Reynolds number flows - the boundary layer
12. Turbulent flow
13. Compressible flow
14. Non-Newtonian fluids.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF]