Fluid mechanics
Fluid mechanics, the study of how fluids behave and interact under various forces and in various applied situations-whether in the liquid or gaseous state or both-is introduced and comprehensively covered in this widely adopted text. Fully revised and updated with the addition of a new chapter on bi...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Amsterdam ; Boston :
Academic Press,
©2008.
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| Edition | 4th ed. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780080555836 0080555837 0123813999 9780123813992 9780123737359 0123737354 1282540386 9781282540385 9786612540387 6612540389 9780123814005 0123814006 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xxviii, 872 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Cartesian tensors
- Kinematics
- Conservation laws
- Vorticity dynamics
- Irrotational flow
- Gravity waves
- Dynamic similarity
- Laminar flow
- Boundary layers and related topics
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Instability
- Turbulence
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Aerodynamics
- Compressible flow
- Introduction to biofluid mechanics.