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Engineering Fluid Mechanics, 12th edition, guides students from theory to application, emphasizing skills like critical thinking, problem solving and modeling to apply fluid mechanics concepts to solve real-world engineering problems. The essential concepts are presented in a clear and concise format, while abundant illustrations, charts, diagrams, and examples illustrate complex topics and highlight the physical reality of fluid dynamics applications. The text emphasizes on technical derivations, presenting derivations of main equation in a step-by-step manner and explaining their holistic meaning in words. The Wales-Wood Model is used throughout the text to solve numerous example problems. This International Adaptation comes with some updates that enhance and expand certain concepts and some organizational changes. The edition provides a wide variety of new and updated solved problems, real-world engineering examples, and end-of-chapter homework problems and has been completely updated to use SI units. The text, though written from civil engineering perspective, adopts an interdisciplinary approach which makes it suitable for engineering students of all majors who are taking a first or second course in fluid mechanics.
List of contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Engineering Fluid Mechanics
1.2 Modeling in Fluid Mechanics and Engineering
1.3 Modeling of Materials
1.4 Weight, Mass, and Newton's Law of Gravitation
1.5 Essential Mathematics Topics
1.6 Density and Specific Weight
1.7 The Ideal Gas Law (IGL)
1.8 Quantity, Units, and Dimensions
1.9 Problem Solving
1.10 Summarizing Key Knowledge
Problems
2. Fluid Properties
2.1 System, State, and Property
2.2 Looking Up Fluid Properties
2.3 Specific Gravity, Constant Density, and the Bulk Modulus
2.4 Pressure and Shear Stress
2.5 The Viscosity Equation
2.6 Surface Tension and Capillary Action
2.7 Vapor Pressure, Boiling, and Cavitation
2.8 Characterizing Thermal Energy in Flowing Gases
2.9 Summarizing Key Knowledge
Problems
3. Fluid Statics
3.1 Describing Pressure
3.2 The Hydrostatic Equations
3.3 Measurement of Pressure
3.4 The Pressure Force on a Panel (Flat Surface)
3.5 Calculating the Pressure Force on a Curved Surface
3.6 Calculating Buoyant Forces
3.7 Predicting Stability of Immersed and Floating Bodies
3.8 Summarizing Key Knowledge
Problems
4. Bernoulli Equation and Pressure Variation
4.1 Flow Patterns: Streamlines, Streaklines, and Pathlines
4.2 Characterizing Velocity of a Flowing Fluid
4.3 Describing Flow
4.4 Acceleration
4.5 Applying Euler's Equation to Understand Pressure Variation
4.6 The Bernoulli Equation along a Streamline
4.7 Measuring Velocity and Pressure
4.8 Characterizing the Rotational Motion of a Flowing Fluid
4.9 The Bernoulli Equation for Irrotational Flow
4.10 Describing the Pressure Field for Flow over a Circular Cylinder
4.10 Elementary Plane potential Flows
4.11 Calculating the Pressure Field for a Rotating Flow
4.12 Summarizing Key Knowledge
Problems
5. The Control Volume Approach and The Continuity Equation
5.1 Characterizing the Rate of Flow
5.2 The Control Volume Approach
5.3 The Continuity Equation (Theory)
5.4 The Continuity Equation (Application)
5.5 Predicting Cavitation
5.6 Summarizing Key Knowledge
6. The Momentum Equation
6.1 Understanding Newton's Second Law of Motion
6.2 The Linear Momentum Equation: Theory
6.3 The Linear Momentum Equation: Application
6.4 The Linear Momentum Equation for a Stationary Control Volume
6.5 Examples of the Linear Momentum Equation (Moving Objects)
6.6 The Angular Momentum Equation
6.7 Summarizing Key Knowledge
Problems
7. The Energy Equation
7.1 Technical Vocabulary: Work, Energy, and Power
7.2 Conservation of Energy
7.3 The Energy Equation
7.4 The Power Equation
7.5 Mechanical Efficiency
7.6 Contrasting the Bernoulli Equation and the Energy Equation
7.7 Transitions
7.8 The Hydraulic and Energy Grade Lines
7.9 Summarizing Key Knowledge
Problems
8. Dimensional Analysis and Similitude
8.1 The Need for Dimensional Analysis
8.2 Buckingham n-ary product Theorem
8.3 Dimensional Analysis
8.4 Common pi-Groups
8.5 Similitude
8.6 Model Studies for Flows without Free-Surface Effects
8.7 Model-P
Summary
Engineering Fluid Mechanics, 12th edition, guides students from theory to application, emphasizing skills like critical thinking, problem solving and modeling to apply fluid mechanics concepts to solve real-world engineering problems. The essential concepts are presented in a clear and concise format, while abundant illustrations, charts, diagrams, and examples illustrate complex topics and highlight the physical reality of fluid dynamics applications. The text emphasizes on technical derivations, presenting derivations of main equation in a step-by-step manner and explaining their holistic meaning in words. The Wales-Wood Model is used throughout the text to solve numerous example problems. This International Adaptation comes with some updates that enhance and expand certain concepts and some organizational changes. The edition provides a wide variety of new and updated solved problems, real-world engineering examples, and end-of-chapter homework problems and has been completely updated to use SI units. The text, though written from civil engineering perspective, adopts an interdisciplinary approach which makes it suitable for engineering students of all majors who are taking a first or second course in fluid mechanics.
