Description
The eighth edition of Fluid Mechanics offers students a clear and comprehensive presentation of the material that demonstrates the progression from physical concepts to engineering applications. The book helps students to see the practical importance of fluid mechanics fundamentals. The wide variety of topics gives instructors many options for their course and is a useful resource to students long after graduation. The problem-solving approach is presented at the start of the book and carefully integrated in all examples. Students can progress from general examples to those involving design, multiple steps, and computer usage.
New To The Eighth Edition
Over 20 new problems per chapter; morethan 500 in total
New subsection on laminar-flow minorlosses, appropriate for micro- and nano-tube flows
Additional discussion of the Kline-Fogelman airfoil, extremely popular now for model aircraft
New supersonic wave photographs added
New subsection on the water-channel compressible flow analogy
New problems assigned to find the oblique wave angle for supercritical water flow past a wedge
An expanded discussion of wind turbines, with examples and problems taken from the author’s own experience
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Pressure Distribution in a Fluid
Chapter 3: Integral Relations for a Control Volume
Chapter 4: Differential Relations for Fluid Flow
Chapter 5: Dimensional Analysis and Similarity
Chapter 6: Viscous Flow in Ducts
Chapter 7: Flow Past Immersed Bodies
Chapter 8: Potential Flow and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Chapter 9: Compressible Flow
Chapter 10: Open-Channel Flow
Chapter 11: Turbomachinery
Appendix A: Physical Properties of Fluids
Appendix B: Compressible Flow Tables
Appendix C: Conversion Factors
Appendix D: Equations of Motion in Cylindrical Coordinates
Appendix E: Estimating Uncertainty in Experimental Data
Answers to Selected Problems
Index
Frank M. White, University of Rhode Island
Adapted by Professor Rhim Yoon Chul, School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University