This is a comprehensive and accessible text that discusses all the aspects of fluid mechanics in concise manner and easy to understand language. The contents of the book have been designed to match with the exact needs of the students. The book has attempted to provide linkages between the different fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics. It gives a holistic knowledge of the logic behind each of them through illustrations and simple worked-out examples. These features will help to approach any problem in a systematic way based on the theory learnt. After the end of each chapter, students will have a chance to review a summary of the presented features. Chapter-end problems have been carefully selected to supplement the theoretical knowledge. The book contains a list of important references at the end of each chapter, to serve as a guide to those students and teachers who wish to delve deeper into the subject matter.
The author has introduced the Navier–Stokes equations of motion for incompressible flows at an early stage, to formulate the governing equations for simple flows. This will arouse greater interest among the students to learn the solution techniques of Navier–Stokes equations.
This book is suitable for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of civil, chemical, mechanical and aerospace engineering.
KEY FEATURES
• Contents reflect the classroom-teaching experience of the author
• Provides answers to the why part of certain complicated concepts in theory
• Fundamental relations are presented in a general form to solve particular problems
• Worked out examples dovetail with the theory
• The book bridges the gap between contents of UG and PG level fluid mechanics
About the Author
BIDYA SAGAR PANI is Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. He has a ME degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. He has been in the teaching and research profession for nearly five decades, most of the time at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has also spent a number of years as a visiting professor, teaching UG and PG courses at different universities abroad, like Concordia University (Montreal), Dalhousie University (Halifax), California State University (Fullerton), University of Hong Kong (China), and NTU (Singapore). Moreover, he has been a consultant to various private and government agencies. He has published more than hundred research papers in reputed national and international journals. Besides, he has also authored a book on ‘Turbulent Jets: A Point-source Method for Hydraulic Engineering’. He is a fellow of the Indian Society for Hydraulics, member of the Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Society and member of International Advisory Board, JHER (IAHR).
Table of Contents:
Preface • Acknowledgements FLUIDS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS HYDROSTATICS FLUID KINEMATICS DYNAMICS OF FLUID FLOW EXACT SOLUTIONS OF THE NAVIER–STOKES EQUATIONS APPROXIMATE SOLUTIONS OF THE NAVIER–STOKES EQUATIONS TURBULENT FLOW FLOW THROUGH PIPES DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND MODEL STUDIES DRAG AND LIFT FORCES OPEN CHANNEL FLOW Solutions to Problems Index
