An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics: Principles of Analysis and Design

by Stanley Middleman

Overview

This text is the outgrowth of Stanley Middleman’s years of teaching and contains more than sufficient materials to support a one-semester course in fluid dynamics. His primary belief in the classroom—and hence the material in this textbook—is that the development of a mathematical is central to the analysis and design of an engineering system or process. His text is therefore oriented toward teaching students how to develop mathematical representations of physical phenomena.

Great effort has been put forth to provide many examples of experimental data against which the results of modeling exercises can be compared and to expose students to the wide range of technologies of interest to chemical, environmental and bio engineering students.

Examples presented are motivated by real engineering applications and may of the problems are derived from the author’s years of experience as a consultant to companies whose businesses cover a broad spectrum of engineering technologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471182092
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/15/1997
Series:	Wiley-BT
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	7.26(w) x 10.24(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Stanley Middleman is the author of An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics: Principles of Analysis and Design, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

What is Fluid Dynamics?

Statics, Dynamics, and Surface Tension.

Forces On, and Within, a Flowing Medium.

Conservation of Mass and Momentum in a Continuous Fluid.

Dimensional Analysis and Dynamic Similarity.

Nearly Parallel Flows.

Unsteady Flows.

The Stream Function.

Turbulent Flow and the Laminar Boundary Layer.

Flow through Porous Media.

Macroscopic Balances.

Appendix.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

A text which is oriented toward teaching students how to develop mathematical representations (models) of physical phenomena. Intended to expose students to a wide range of technologies, and assumes a prior knowledge in ordinary differential equations. Eleven chapters discuss statics, dynamics, and surface tension; forces on, and within, a flowing medium; conservation of mass and momentum in a continuous fluid; dimensional analysis and dynamic similarity; nearly parallel and unsteady flows; the stream function, turbulent flow and the laminar boundary layer; flow through porous media; and macroscopic balances. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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