Fluid Mechanics

• Main Authors: Spurk, H.Joseph (Author), Aksel, Nuri (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Edition: 2.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Fluid mechanics.; Power electronics.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

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: f...

Table of Contents:

• The Concept of the Continuum and Kinematics
• Fundamental Laws of Continuum Mechanics
• Constitutive Relations for Fluids
• Equations of Motion for Particular Fluids
• Hydrostatics.
• Laminar Unidirectional Flows
• Fundamentals of Turbulent Flow
• Hydrodynamic Lubrication
• Stream Filament Theory
• Potential Flows
• Supersonic Flow
• Boundary Layer Theory
• Creeping Flows.