Engineering Bookshelf

Elementary Fluid Mechanics
by Robert L. Street, Gary Z. Watters, John K. Vennard

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471013102

Textbook concerned with basic principles that provide the solution to numerous and diverse problems encountered in many fields of engineering, regardless of the physical properties of the fluids involved. DLC: Fluid mechanics.

This is a generally good book. of course, but as textbooks go, this is worth it. the material is as clear as can be, so that makes it a little easier to deal with an otherwise tough subject.

Classical Dynamics: A Contemporary Approach
by Jorge V. José, Eugene J. Saletan

Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press
ISBN: 0521636361

Recent advances in the study of dynamical systems have revolutionized the way that classical mechanics is taught and understood. Classical Dynamics: A Contemporary Approach is a new and comprehensive textbook that provides a complete description of this fundamental branch of physics.

It will be an ideal textbook for graduate students of physics, applied mathematics, theoretical chemistry, and engineering, and will also serve as a useful reference for researchers in these fields.

An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method
by H. K. Versteeg, W. Malalasekera

Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0131274988

The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics to simulate and predict fluid flows, heat transfer and associated phenomena continues to grow throughout many engineering disciplines. On the back of ever more powerful computers and graphical user interfaces CFD provides engineers with a reliable tool to assist in the design of industrial equipment often reducing or eliminating the need for performing trial-and-error experimentation.

An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics is the ideal text for the newcomer to the area whether they be undergraduates, graduates, or professionals. It provides thorough yet accessible coverage of commercial finite volume based CFD codes within the context of the underlying theory, giving the reader a full appreciation of CFD and its numerous engineering applications.

Engineering Fluid Mechanics
by Clayton T. Crowe, Donald F. Elger, John A. Roberson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118164296

This reader-friendly book fosters a strong conceptual understanding of fluid flow phenomena through lucid physical descriptions, photographs, clear illustrations and fully worked example problems. More than 1,100 problems, including open-ended design problems and computer-oriented problems, provide an opportunity to apply fluid mechanics principles. Throughout, the authors have meticulously reviewed all problems, solutions, and text material to ensure accuracy.

Computational Fluid Mechanics And Heat Transfer
by John C. Tannehill, Dale A. Anderson, Richard H. Pletcher

Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1591690374

This comprehensive text provides basic fundamentals of computational theory and computational methods. The book is divided into two parts. The first part covers material fundamental to the understanding and application of finite-difference methods. The second part illustrates the use of such methods in solving different types of complex problems encountered in fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer is very well written to be used as a textbook for an introductory computational fluid dynamics course, especially for those who want to study computational aerodynamics. Most widely used finite difference and finite volume schemes for various partial differential equations of fluid dynamics and heat transfer are presented in such a way that anyone can read and understand them rather easily.

Fluid Mechanics
(Dover Classics of Science and Mathematics)
by Robert Alan Granger

Publisher: Dover Pubns
ISBN: 0486683567

An introduction to fluid mechanics, originally published in 1985, presenting a unified method of analysis that poses fluid mechanics problems in precise mathematical language. Describes problems using real-life examples, and represents the physical model by appropriate mathematical symbols, collecting them into equations and then solving them. Includes examples of problem-solving techniques, study questions, key equations, and problems.

This edition includes a new preface and answers to selected problems.

Fluid Mechanics
by L. D. Landau

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750627670

This is the famous Course of Theoretical Physics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. All serious students of theoretical physics must possess the ten volumes of this excellent Course, which cover in detail and rigour practically all the branches of theoretical physics. This edition treats the theory of the motion of liquids and gases. The book opens with the theory of ideal fluids and drives the attention of the reader to a large amount of topics, which are discussed in greater detail and, moreover, discussing with details topics not usually found in other similar books, such as turbulence, sound, fluid dynamics of combustion, relativistic fluid dynamics and the dynamics of superfluids. The book is written in a language proper of a theoretical physicist, but owing to its clarity, it can be read without problems for other scientists. A superb book!

Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer
by James Welty, Charles E. Wicks, Robert E. Wilson, Gregory L. Rorrer

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471381497

Textbook containing contemporary subject matter relating to the fundamentals of heat, momentum and mass transfer. Includes homework problems and practice exercises that deal with current technologies, revised coverage of mass transfer, and extensive tables of physical properties of solids, liquids, and gases, among other features. Previous edition not cited. DLC: Fluid mechanics.

Incompressible Flow
by Ronald L. Panton

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN: 047126122X

This updated and revised edition of Dr. Ronald L. Panton's Incompressible Flow provides readers with an exceptionally clear, unified, and carefully paced introduction to advanced concepts in fluid mechanics.

Dubbed by one reviewer as "the most teachable book on the market," it begins with basic principles and then patiently develops the math and physics leading to the major theories. Throughout, a unified presentation of physics, mathematics, and engineering applications is achieved, and the text is liberally supplemented with helpful exercises and example problems.

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
by Philip J. Pritchard

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470547553

This successful book presents the fundamentals of fluid mechanics clearly and succinctly. Knowledge of fluid flow is essential to industries involving heat transfer, chemical processes, and aerodynamics.

The book makes use of a problem-solving methodology and includes outstanding example problems. Topics covered are flow fields; potential theory and boundary layer theory; Bernoulli's Equation, Dimensional Analysis.

Microflows: Fundamentals and Simulation
by George Em Karniadakis, Ali Beskok

Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISBN: 0387953248

I was fortunate enough to be given a chance to read the manuscript of this book about a year before it was published. I was looking for a source of general information on fluid issues in MEMS in order to acquaint myself with the subject.

Even though many research papers are out there, the new reader to the field needs to be given a solid starting point. Being a well-written research monograph, this is that solid starting point for those who have a grasp of traditional fluid mechanics and want to enhance that understanding for research into MEMS devices and flows encountered at micron scale and below.

Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics: With Applications to Geophysics (Texts in Applied Mathematics)
by Dale R. Durran

Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISBN: 1441964118

This scholarly text provides an introduction to the numerical methods used to model partial differential equations governing wave-like and weakly dissipative flows.

The focus of the book is on fundamental methods and standard fluid dynamical problems such as tracer transport, the shallow-water equations and the Euler equations. The emphasis is on methods appropriate for applications in atmospheric and oceanic science, but these same methods are also well-suited for the simulation of wave-like flows in many other scientific and engineering disciplines.

Schaum’s Outline of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics
by Jack B. Evett, Cheng Liu

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
ISBN: 0071831452

Master fluid mechanics and hydraulics with Schaum's high-performance guide that helps you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's guides are complete enough for graduate or professional exam review and allows you to progress at your own pace but find the answers you need fast.

Written by a renowned expert in this field, Schaum's Outline of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics covers what you need to know for your course and, more important, your exams.

An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
by G. K. Batchelor (Author), G.K. Batchelor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521663962

First published in 1967, Professor Batchelor's classic work is still one of the foremost texts on fluid dynamics. His careful presentation of the underlying theories of fluids is still timely and applicable, even in these days of almost limitless computer power.

This reissue ensures that a new generation of graduate students experiences the elegance of Professor Batchelor's writing.

Applied Fluid Mechanics
by Robert L. Mott

Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0131146807

This text covers all of the basic principles of fluid mechanics-both statics and dynamics in a clear, practical presentation that ties theory directly to real devices and systems used in chemical process industries, manufacturing, plant engineering, waste water handling and product design.

With a wealth of updated coverage and a new two-color format that makes information even more interesting and accessible, here is the new Fourth Edition of the most-popular engineering technology fluid mechanics text. Here are all of the basic principles of fluid mechanics, both statics and dynamics, in a clear, practical presentation that ties theory directly to real devices and systems used in chemical process industries, manufacturing, plant engineering, waste water handling and product design.

Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics
by Joel H. Ferziger, Milovan Peric

Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISBN: 3540420746

In its third revised and extended edition the book offers an overview of the techniques used to solve problems in fluid mechanics on computers. The authors describe in detail the most often used techniques. Included are advanced techniques in computational fluid dynamics, such as direct and large-eddy simulation of turbulence.

This book provides an overview of the advanced techniques used to solve problems in fluid mechanics on computers and describes in detail those most often used in practice. The book shows common roots and basic principles for many apparently different methods. Furthermore, the issues of numerical accuracy, estimation, and reduction of numerical errors are dealt with in detail, with many examples. 95 illus.

Boundary-Layer Theory
by Hermann Schlichting, Klaus Gersten, Egon Krause, Katherine Mayes (Translator), Herbert, Jr. Oertel

Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISBN: 3540662707

This book presents a comprehensive overview of boundary-layer theory and its application to all areas of fluid mechhanics, with emphasis on the flow past bodies (e.g. aircraft aerodynamics). It contains the latest knowledge of the subject based on a thorough review of the literature over the past 15 years.

Yet again, it will be an indispensable source of inexhaustible information for students of fluid mechanics and engineers alike.

Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers
by James O. Wilkes, Stacy G. Bike

Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN: 0131482122

Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers, Second Edition, with Microfluidics and CFD, systematically introduces fluid mechanics from the perspective of the chemical engineer who must understand actual physical behavior and solve real-world problems. Building on a first edition that earned Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award, this edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the field's latest advances.

Gives the undergraduate & first year graduate student a comprehensive overview of fluid mechanics, bridging the gap between the physicist & the practitioner by providing numerous realworld examples & problems of increasing detail & complexity, including several from the University of Cambridge chemical engineering exams. DLC: Chemical processes.