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Fluid mechanics concerns the way fluids flow in response to imposed stresses. This textbook includes numerous examples of practical applications of the theoretical ideas, such as calculations of the thrust of a jet engine, the power output of a gas turbine and forces created by liquid flow through a pipe bend or junction.
List of contents
- 1: INTRODUCTION
- 2: FLUIDS AND FLUID PROPERTIES
- 3: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT, DIMENSIONS, AND DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
- 4: PRESSURE VARIATION IN A FLUID AT REST (HYDROSTATICS)
- 5: HYDROSTATIC FORCE EXERTED ON A SUBMERGED SURFACE
- 6: KINEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF FLUIDS IN MOTION AND APPROXIMATIONS
- 7: BERNOULLI'S EQUATION
- 8: ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF BERNOULLI'S EQUATION
- 9: LINEAR MOMENTUM EQUATION AND HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES
- 10: ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF THE LINEAR MOMENTUM EQUATION
- 11: COMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW
- 12: OBLIQUE SHOCK WAVES AND EXPANSION FANS
- 13: COMPRESSIBLE PIPE FLOW
- 14: FLOW THROUGH AXIAL-FLOW TURBOMACHINERY BLADING
- 15: BASIC EQUATIONS OF VISCOUS-FLUID FLOW
- 16: INTERNAL LAMINAR FLOW
- 17: LAMINAR BOUNDAY-LAYERS
- 18: TURBULENT FlOW
- APPENDICES
About the author
Marcel Escudier is Emeritus Harrison Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Liverpool. From 1974 until 1986 he was Gruppenleiter für Strömungsmechanik at the Brown, Boveri Research Centre in Switzerland and then joined Schlumberger Cambridge Research in the UK as Head of the Fluid Mechanics Department. He has published research papers (about 60 in total) on turbulent boundary layers, burning plumes, vortex breakdown, and the flow of non-Newtonian liquids. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Summary
Fluid mechanics concerns the way fluids flow in response to imposed stresses. This textbook includes numerous examples of practical applications of the theoretical ideas, such as calculations of the thrust of a jet engine, the power output of a gas turbine and forces created by liquid flow through a pipe bend or junction.
