Fluid Mechanics-Introduction

This book is intended for junior and senior engineering students who are interested in learning
some fundamental aspects of fluid mechanics. This area of mechanics is mature, and a
complete coverage of all aspects of it obviously cannot be accomplished in a single volume.
We developed this text to be used as a first course. The principles considered are classical
and have been well-established for many years. However, fluid mechanics education has improved
with experience in the classroom, and we have brought to bear in this book our own
ideas about the teaching of this interesting and important subject. This fourth edition has
been prepared after several years of experience by the authors using the previous editions for
an introductory course in fluid mechanics. Based on this experience, along with suggestions
from reviewers, colleagues, and students, we have made a number of changes in this new
edition. Many of these changes are minor and have been made to simply clarify, update and
expand certain ideas and concepts.
The major changes in the fourth edition involve the CD-ROM that accompanies the
book. This E-book CD-ROM contains the entire print component of the book, plus additional
material not in the print version. This approach allows the inclusion of various materials that
would either cause the print version to be too big or materials that are ideally (and only)
suited for the electronic media. Approximately 25 percent of the homework problems in both
the E-book and the print version are new problems.
The E-book contains the following material. (1) There are 80 video segments
illustrating many interesting and practical applications of “real-world” fluid phenomena.
Each video segment is identified at the appropriate location in the text material by an icon
of the type shown in the left margin. In addition, there are approximately 160 homework
problems that are tied-in directly with the topics in the videos. The appropriate videos can
be viewed directly from the problems. (2) There are 30 extended, laboratory-type problems
that involve actual experimental data for simple experiments of the type that are often found
in the laboratory portion of many introductory fluid mechanics courses. The data for these
problems are provided in an EXCEL format. (3) There is a set of 186 review problems covering
most of the main topics in the book. Complete, detailed solutions to these problems
are provided. (4) Chapter 12, “Turbomachines,” is contained in the E-book only.