Fluid Mechanics And Its Applications

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About the Book: This text, written as an introduction to fluid mechanics for students of all engineering disciplines emphasizes fluid flow phenomena and their modelling. The level of mathematics is kept at the minimum so that a student can pay full attention to the complexities of the fundamental physical concepts and develop a physical feel of the subject. Common misapplications, misunderstandings and over- generalizations made by students are anticipated and cautioned against.Relatively newer and simplertreatments have been used in several topics such as Euler acceleration formula, Reynolds transport theorem and Bernoulli equation, and a new unified treatment of modelling, similitude and the basis of approximations has been presented. A preview of fluid flow phenomena in Chapter 1 and an overview in the epilogue are included. A whole array of applications from diverse engineering disciplines has been introduced through numerous solved examples and over five hundred carefully graded problems.

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: Vijay Gupta is a professor in Aeronautical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. A graduate of IIT, Delhi, he obtained his Ph.D. From the University of Minnesota. His research interests include high-speed aerodynamics and bio-fluid mechanics. He has co-authored the textbooks Heat and Mass Transfer and An Introduction to Engineering Design Method.Santosh K Gupta is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. A graduate of the same institute, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include molecular theories of polymer systems, modelling of polymerization reactors and momentum transfer operations. He has published over one hundred papers in these areas and has also co-authored the textbooks Fundamentals ofPolymer Science and Engineering, Momentum Transfer Operations, Reaction Engineering of Step Growth Polymerization and Numerical Methods for Engineers . He is a member of the Phi Lambda Upsilon Society. Contents: Introduction to Fluid Flows Forces in Stationary Fluids Description and Analysis of Fluid Motion Conservation of Mass Momentum Theorems Equation of Motion Energy Equation Some Engineering Applications-I Similitude and Modelling Some Engineering Applications-II Approximations in Fluid Mechanics In viscid Flows Boundary Layers Some Engineering Applications-III Effects of Compressibility Introduction to Turbulent Flows Epilogue.