This book is intended for use as a textbook in the first course in fluid mechanics for students of various engineering specialties, such as mechanical, civil, biomedical, mining, petrochemical and others. The author also hopes that it will become a reference book for practicing engineers.
The presented text assumes that students have an adequate background in calculus, physics and engineering mechanics. The main objectives are to cover basic principles of fluid mechanics but also to present numerous real-world engineering examples to give students a feel of how fluid mechanics is applied in engineering practice. The author wants the reader to develop an intuitive understanding of fluid mechanics by emphasizing basic physics and showing how most of the formulas can be derived from Newton’s laws of motion.
The book is divided into two volumes. Volume One presents the basic principles and shows the relations of all fluid mechanics concepts to three basic conservations laws: conservation of mass, energy and momentum. Specifically, volume one includes discussion of hydrostatics, fluid kinematics, Bernoulli Equation, analysis of linear and angular momentum and Navier-Stokes equation. Volume Two concentrates on practical applications and includes a detailed presentation of flow in pipes with many engineering examples, then flow over bodies, turbomachinery and methods of flow measurements. In order to show also how modern tools are used in engineering practice, we included chapters on two-phase flow and introduction to CFD (computational fluid dynamics).