This book describes the fundamentals of fluid mechanics phenomena for engineers and others. This book is designed to replace all introductory textbook(s) or instructor's notes for the fluid mechanics in undergraduate classes for engineering/science students but also for technical people. It is hoped that the book could be used as a reference book for people who have at least some basics knowledge of science areas such as calculus, physics, etc. This version is a PDF document. The website [http: //www.potto.org/FM/fluidMechanics.pdf ] contains the book broken into sections, and also has LaTeX resources

This book offers a novel but unified treatment of an established subject. Rather than describe the standard topics in fluid mechanics in traditional form, the book presents each topic as part of a wider class of problems so that a unity of concepts is emphasized over a unity of material.

This Research Note presents several contributions and mathematical studies in fluid mechanics, namely in non-Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids and on the Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains. It includes review of the mathematical analysis of incompressible and compressible flows and results in magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic stability and thermoconvective flow of Boussinesq-Stefan type. These studies, along with brief communications on a variety of related topics comprise the proceedings of a summer course held in Lisbon, Portugal in 1991. Together they provide a set of comprehensive survey and advanced introduction to problems in fluid mechanics and partial differential equations.

This book discusses the fundamental principles and equations governing the motion of incompressible Newtonian fluids, and simultaneously introduces numerical methods for solving a broad range of problems. Appendices provide a wealth of information that establishes the necessary mathematical and computational framework.

Market: Those interested in fluid dynamics and the related fields of oceanography, meteorology, and mechanical, aerospace, chemical, and civil engineering. This monograph is a report of a meeting sponsored by the National Science Foundation to determine research trends and consequent funding/research needs in fluid dynamics. The book covers major industries, technologies, and environmental issues affected by fluid mechanics, as well as the direction future research in the field should take. The areas covered not only fill important gaps in the literature, they are crucial to the resolution of serious global and regional environmental problems. In addition, the book emphasizes the impact of the research areas on commercial questions and on issues affecting public policy.

This book presents select proceedings of Conference on Recent Trends in Fluid Dynamics Research (RTFDR-21). It signifies the current research trends in fluid dynamics and convection heat transfer for both laminar and turbulent flow structures. The topics covered include fluid mechanics and applications, microfluidics and nanofluidics, numerical methods for multiphase flows, cavitation, combustion, fluid-particle interactions in turbulence, biological flows, CFD, experimental fluid mechanics, convection heat transfer, numerical heat transfer, fluid power, experimental heat transfer, heat transfer, non-newtonian rheology, and boundary layer theory. The book also discusses various fundamental and application-based research of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, combustion, etc., by theoretical and experimental approaches. The book will be a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in fluid dynamics research and allied fields.

This textbook describes the fundamental OC physicalOCO aspects of fluid flows for beginners of fluid mechanics in physics, mathematics and engineering, from the point of view of modern physics. It also emphasizes the dynamical aspects of fluid motions rather than the static aspects, illustrating vortex motions, waves, geophysical flows, chaos and turbulence. Beginning with the fundamental concepts of the nature of flows and the properties of fluids, the book presents fundamental conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy, and the equations of motion for both inviscid and viscous fluids. In addition to the fundamentals, this book also covers water waves and sound waves, vortex motions, geophysical flows, nonlinear instability, chaos, and turbulence. Furthermore, it includes the chapters on superfluids and the gauge theory of fluid flows. The material in the book emerged from the lecture notes for an intensive course on Elementary Fluid Mechanics for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of theoretical physics given in 2003 and 2004 at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics (Tianjin) in China. Hence, each chapter may be presented separately as a single lecture."