Fluid Mechanics

This successful textbook emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics as they emerge from the general principles of continuum mechanics. The different branches of Fluid Mechanics, always originating from simplifying assumptions, are developed according to the basic rule: from the general to the specific. The first part of the book contains a concise but readable introduction into kinematics and the formulation of the laws of mechanics and thermodynamics. The second part consists of the methodical application of these principles to technology. This book is offered to engineers, physicists and applied mathematicians; it can be used for self study, as well as in conjunction with a lecture course. This second English version is the translation of the very successful seventh German book, significantly expanded by a new chapter about creeping flows. In addition, sections about thin-film flow and flow through porous media are added and thus the book gives a complex introduction to the wide area of fluid mechanics. "This textbook emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics as they emerge from the general principles of continuum mechanics. The different branches of Fluid Mechanics, always originating from simplifying assumptions, are developed according to the basic rule: from the general to the specific." "The first part of the book contains a concise but readable introduction into kinematics and the formulation of the laws of mechanics and thermodynamics. The second part consists of the methodical application of these principles to technology. This book is offered to engineers, physicists and applied mathematicians; it can be used for self study, as well as in conjunction with a lecture course." "This second English version is the translation of the very successful seventh German book, significantly expanded by a new chapter about creeping flows. In addition, sections about thin-film flow and flow through porous media are added and thus the book gives a complex introduction to the wide area of fluid mechanics."--Jacket This successful textbook emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics as they emerge from the general principles of continuum mechanics. The different branches of Fluid Mechanics, always originating from simplifying assumptions, are developed according to the basic rule: from the general to the specific. The first part of the book contains a concise but readable introduction into kinematics and the formulation of the laws of mechanics and thermodynamics. The second part consists of the methodical application of these principles to technology. In addition, sections about thin-film flow and flow through porous media are included. Front Matter....Pages I-X The Concept of the Continuum and Kinematics....Pages 1-33 Fundamental Laws of Continuum Mechanics....Pages 35-74 Constitutive Relations for Fluids....Pages 75-94 Equations of Motion for Particular Fluids....Pages 95-150 Hydrostatics.....Pages 151-166 Laminar Unidirectional Flows....Pages 167-203 Fundamentals of Turbulent Flow....Pages 205-228 Hydrodynamic Lubrication....Pages 229-259 Stream Filament Theory....Pages 261-314 Potential Flows....Pages 315-397 Supersonic Flow....Pages 399-416 Boundary Layer Theory....Pages 417-450 Creeping Flows....Pages 451-470 Back Matter....Pages 471-531 This textbook emphasises the unified nature of all the disciplines of fluid mechanics as they emerge from the general principles of continuum mechanics. The different branches of fluid mechanics, always originating from simplifying assumptions, are developed according to the basic rule: from the general to the specific. -- back cover