Elementary Fluid Mechanics

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

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 7; 7 Edition
ISBN: 0471013102

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Book Info

This edition retains the basic approach and style that has appealed to readers for over fifty years. The first half focuses on fundamental physical and analytical principles. The second half covers applications of those principles to flow in pipes and open channels, lift and drag, fluid machinery, and compressible flow. The final chapter is an introduction to an array of fluid measurements and the instruments for making them.

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.

Table of Contents

• Fundamentals.
• Fluid Statics.
• Kinematics of Fluid Motion.
• Systems, Control Volumes, Conservation of Mass, and The Reynolds Transport Theorem.
• Flow of an Incompressible Ideal Fluid.
• The Impulse-Momentum Principle.
• Flow of a Real Fluid.
• Similitude, Dimensional Analysis and Normalization of Equations of Motion.
• Flow in Pipes.
• Flow in Open Channels.
• Lift and Drag—Incompressible Flow.
• Introduction to Fluid Machinery.
• Flow of Compressible Fluids.
• Fluid Measurements.
• Appendices.
• Index.

Customer Reviews

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.