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Summary

This concise, yet comprehensive book covers the basic concepts and principles of modern fluid mechanics. It examines the fundamental aspects of fluid motion including important fluid properties, regimes of flow, pressure variations in fluids at rest and in motion, methods of flow description and analysis.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction
Dimensions
1.1 R, 1.2R
Units
1.3R, 1.4R
Specific gravity
1.5R
Specific weight
1.6R
Ideal gas law
1.7R, 1.8R
Viscosity
1.9R, 1.1OR, 1.11R
Bulk modulus
1.12R, 1.13R
Speed of sound
1.14R
Vapor pressure
1.15R
2 Fluid Statics
Pressure head
2.1R
Pressure depth relationship
2.2R
Gage/absolute pressure
2.3R
Manometer
2.4R, 2.5R, 2.6R
Force on plane surface 2.7R, 2.8R, 2.l0R, 2.11R
Center of pressure
2.9R
Force on curved surface
2.12R, 2.13R, 2.14R
Buoyancy
2.15R, 2.16R
Buoyancy, force on plane surface
2.17R
3 Elementary Fluid Dynamics - The Bernoulli Equation
F = ma along streamline
3.1R
F = ma normal to streamline
3.2R
Stagnation pressure
3.3R
Bernoulli equation
3.4R
Heads
3.5R
Free jet
3.6R
Bernoulli/continuity
3.7R, 3.8R, 3.9R, 3.10R, 3.12R
Bernoulli/continuity/Pitot tube
3.11R
Cavitation
3.13R
Flowrate
3.14R
Channel flow grade line
3.15R, 3.16R 3.17R
Restrictions on Bernoulli equation
3.18R, 3.19R
4 Fluid Kinematics
Streamlines
4.1R, 4.2R
Material derivative
4.3R
Acceleration
4.4R, 4.5R, 4.6R, 4.7R
Reynolds transport theorem
4.8R
Flowrate
4.9R, 4.10R
Control volume/system
4.11 R
5 Finite Control Volume Analysis
Continuity equation
5.1R, 5.2R, 5.3R
Average velocity
5.4R
Linear momentum
5.5R, 5.6R, 5.7R, 5.8R, 5.9R, 5.1 OR, 5.11R, 5.12R
Moment-of-momentum
5.13R, 5.14R, 5.15R, 5.16R
Energy equation
5.17R, 5.18R, 5.20R, 5.21R, 5.22R
Linear momentum/energy
5.19R
6 Differential Analysis Of Fluid Flow
Acceleration
6.1R
Vorticity
6.2R
Conservation of mass
6.3R, 6.4R
Stream function
6.5R
Velocity potential
6.6R
Potential flow
6.7R, 6.l0R
Inviscid flow
6.8R, 6.9R
Viscous flow
6.11R, 6.12R, 6.13R, 6.14R
7 Similitude, Dimensional Analysis, and Modeling
Common Pi terms
7.1R
Dimensionless variables
7.2R
Determination of Pi terms
7.3R, 7.4R, 7.5R, 7.6R
Modeling/similarity
7.7R, 7.8R, 7.9R
Correlation of experimental data
7.10R, 7.11R
8 Viscous Flow In Pipes
Laminar Flow
8.1R, 8.2R
Velocity Profile
8.3R
Turbulent velocity profile
8.4R
Moody chart
8.5R, 8.6R
Minor losses
8.7R
Noncircular conduits
8.8R
Single pipe-Determine pressure drop
8.9R, 8.10R
Single pipe-Determine flowrate
8.11R
Single pipe-Determine diameter
8.12R
Single pipe with pump
8.13R, 8.14R
Single pipe with turbine
8.15R
Multiple pipes
8.16R
Flow meters
8.17R, 8.18R
9 Flow Over Immersed Bodies
Lift/drag calculation
9.1R
External flow character
9.2R, 9.3R
Boundary layer flow
9.4R, 9.5R
Friction drag
9.6R
Momentum integral equation
9.7R
Drag-low Reynolds number
9.8R
Drag
9.9R, 9.10R, 9.11R, 9.12R, 9.13R
Drag - composite body
9.14R
10 Open-Channel Flow
Surface waves
Froude number
Specific engergy
Wall shear stress
Manning equation
Best hydraulic cross section
Hydraulic jump
Sharp-crested weir
Broad-crested weir
Underflow gate
11 Turbomachines
Angular momentum
11.1 R
Velocity triangles
11.2R
Centrifugal pump
11 .3R, 11.4R
Similarity laws
11.5R
Specific speed
11.6R
Turbine
11.7R, 11.8R

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