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ELEMENTARY FLUID MECHANICS

SEVENTH EDITION

ROBERT STREET, Stanford University
GARY Z. WATTERS, California State University at Chico
the late JOHN VENNARD
ISBN: 0-471-01310-2, 757 Pages, Cloth, 1996


Description:

For 50 years now, this text has been enabling students to grasp the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and their application to current topics of interest and importance to the student and instructor. It accomplishes this through the emphasis of physical concepts rather than mathematical manipulation. Now, in its seventh edition, Robert Street and Gary Watters continue the work begun by John Vennard, preparing this text for students in the 90's.

Incorporating a new 2-color design, the art program has been dramatically revised to modernize the look of the text. Organizational changes throughout the book (separating chapter 3, consolidating compressible flow) group information in a more easy to use and understand fashion.

Although its excellent applications toward Civil Engineering make this text traditionally favored by that market, it is suitable for an introductory junior/senior level course in Fluid mechanics taught out of civil, mechanical or chemical engineering departments. Prerequisites include calculus and statics and dynamics. It does not require a background in thermodynamics or advanced mathematics.

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Table of Contents

  1. Fundamentals
  2. Fluid Statics
  3. Kinematics of Fluid Motion
  4. Systems, Control Volumes, Conservation of Mass, and The Reynolds Transport Theorem
  5. Flow of an Incompressible Ideal Fluid
  6. The Impulse -Momentum Principle
  7. Flow of a Real Fluid
  8. Similitude, Dimensional Analysis and Normalization of Equations of Motion
  9. Flow in Pipes
  10. Flow in Open Channels
  11. Lift and Drag-- Incompressible Flow
  12. Introduction to Fluid Machinery
  13. Flow of Compressible Fluids
  14. Fluid Measurements