Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids

"Fully updated and expanded to reflect the staggering advances in modern mathematics, this fourth edition boasts 40 new homework problems (nearly 150 in total); new appendix material summarizing vectors, tensors, complex variables, and governing equations in common coordinate systems; and a new chapter on similarity solutions, group invariance solutions, separation of variables solutions, and some Fourier series representations. Illustrating basic equations and strategies to analyze fluid dynamics, mechanisms, and behavior, this new edition also contains reworked line drawings, revised problems, and extended end-of-chapter questions for clarification and expansion of key concepts"--

Iain G. Currie is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at University of Toronto, Canada. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, a Master’s degree from the University of British Columbia, and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He has taught fluid mechanics at the undergraduate and graduate levels for many years. His research involves fluid structure interactions, and he has become involved in studying low Reynolds number flows of both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.

Governing Equations. Ideal-Fluid Flow. Viscous Flows of Incompressible Fluids. Compressible Flow of Inviscid Fluids. Appendix A: Vector Analysis. Appendix B: Tensors. Appendix C: Governing Equations. Appendix D: Complex Variables. Appendix E: Thermodynamics. Index.