Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics: For Scientists and Engineers

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of fluid mechanics, covering phenomenological analysis, physical conceptualization, and mathematical formulation. It discusses the thermo-mechanical motion equations of a homogeneous single-phase fluid, derived flow models, and motion classes. Incompressible and compressible flows of an ideal inviscid fluid are addressed, as well as the viscous fluid with creeping motion and boundary layers. The book is intended as a teaching tool for undergraduate students and engineers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 570 pages
Publication date: 25 January 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive textbook offers a thorough and well-organized exploration of fluid mechanics, a discipline that plays a pivotal role in understanding a wide range of natural phenomena and is central to numerous industrial applications and human activities. The interplay between phenomenological analysis, physical conceptualization, and mathematical formulation serves as a unifying educational hallmark and a methodological guide for the three parts of the work. The thermo-mechanical motion equations of a homogeneous single-phase fluid are established, from which flow models (perfect fluid, viscous) and motion classes (isovolume, barotropic, irrotational, etc.) are derived. In the second part, the book addresses incompressible and potential flows, both in isentropic evolution and shock, of an ideal inviscid fluid. The last section focuses on the viscous fluid, delving into the creeping motion regime and the laminar, dynamic, and thermal boundary layer. Historical perspectives are included whenever they enhance the understanding of modern concepts. Numerous examples, carefully selected for their pedagogical relevance, are presented in exercises. The book is designed as a teaching resource for undergraduate students seeking to gain a foundational understanding of fluid mechanics, as well as for graduates in advanced courses and engineers in other fields who aim to consolidate and expand their knowledge in this often fragmented field.

Weight: 1045g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031100857
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022