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Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications communicates directly with tomorrow\'s engineers in a simple yet precise manner. The text covers the basic principles and equations of fluid mechanics in the context of numerous and diverse real-world engineering examples. The text helps students develop an intuitive understanding of fluid mechanics by emphasizing the physics, and by supplying attractive figures, numerous photographs and visual aids to reinforce the physics.
Description
Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications communicates directly with tomorrow\'s engineers in a simple yet precise manner. The text covers the basic principles and equations of fluid mechanics in the context of numerous and diverse real-world engineering examples. The text helps students develop an intuitive understanding of fluid mechanics by emphasizing the physics, and by supplying attractive figures, numerous photographs and visual aids to reinforce the physics.
Key Features
APPLICATIONS SPOTLIGHT. Written by guest authors, this feature is designed to show how fluid mechanics has diverse applications in a wide variety of fields. The Application Spotlights highlight industry and university research worldwide.
ACCURACY. The accuracy of the book will be insured by thorough testing.
Understanding how fluid mechanics topics are essential to contemporary reserach projects helps motivate the students.
With an advanced, highly mathematical topic such as fluid mechanics, accuracy is essential.
EMPHASIS ON PHYSICS. This text emphasizes the physical aspects of the subject matter in addition to mathematical representations and manipulations. The authors believe that the emphasis in undergraduate education should remain on developing a sense of the underlying physical mechanisms and a mastery of solving practical problems than an engineer is likely to face in the real world.
Instructors use the text images to prepare their own presentations, exams, and assignments. With COSMOS, no longer do instructors need to wade through thick solutions manuals and huge Word files. COSMOS helps you to quickly find solutions and also keeps a record of problems solved to avoid duplication in subsequent semesters.
VISUAL PROGRAM. fluid mechanics is a highly visual subject,and students learn more effectively by visual stimulation. Our text features more illustrations and photographs than other books in this category. Some of the figures and photographs in the text are intended to serve as a means of emphasizing key concepts that would otherwise go unnoticed; some serve as page summaries.
VIDEO CLIPS AND ANIMATIONS. In addition to text figures and photographs, there are narrated video clips of fluid mechanics experiments that complement the text material. There are also dozens of animations created with computational fluid dynamics. Both the video clips and animations can be found on the DVD that accompanies the text.
SYSTEMATIC SOLUTION PROCEDURE. A well-structured approach is used in problem solving while maintaining an informal conversational style. The problem is first stated and the objectives are identified, and the assumptions made are stated together with their justifications. The properties needed to solve the problem are listed separately. Numerical values are used together with their units to emphasize that numbers without units are meaningless, and unit manipulations are a important as manipulating the numerical values with a calculator. The significance of the findings is discussed following the solutions. This approach is also used consistently in the solutions presented in the Instructor\'s Solutions Manual.
REALISTIC END-OF-CHAPTER PROBLEMS. End-of-chapter problems are grouped under specific topics in the order they are covered to make problem selection easier for both instructors and students. Within each group of problems are CONCEPT QUESTIONS, to check the students\' level of understanding of basic concepts. The COMPREHENSIVE AND REVIEW PROBLEMS are not directly tied to any specific section of a chapter--in some cases they require review of material used in previous chapters.
DESIGN AND ESSAY PROBLEMS. This special category of end-of-chapter problems encourages students to make engineering judgments, to conduct independent exploration of topics of interest, and to communicate their findings in a professional manner.
COMPUTER PROBLEMS. Throughout the text comprehensive problems that require conducting extensive parametric studies are incorporated using either a spreadsheet or the enclosed EES (or other suitable) software. These problems are designated by a computer icon for easy recognition.
CHAPTER ON CFD. Commercial CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) codes are used widely in engineering practice in the design and analysis of flow systems, and it has become exceedingly important for students to have a solid understanding of the fundamental aspects, capabilities, and common pitfalls of CFD. Chapter 15 describes the fundamental concepts of CFD, and shows students how to use commercial CFD codes as a tool to solve complex fluid mechanics problems. We emphasize the application of CFD rather than the algorithms used in CFD code.
CHOICE OF SI ALONE OR SI/ENGLISH UNITS. In recognition of the fact that English units are still widely used in some industries, both SI and English units are used in this text, with an emphasis on SI. Problems, tables, and charts in English units are designated by \"E\" after the number for easy recognition, and they can be ignored easily by SI users.
STUDENT DVD: Packaged free with the text, the Student Resources DVD features: 1) Limited Academic Version of EES (Engineering Equation Solver) software with scripted solutions to selected text problems 2) Video Clips of fluid mechanics experiments; and 3) Animations Library (Courtesy of Fluent, Inc.) offering dozens of animations created with CFD.
INSTRUCTOR\'S RESOURCE CD. This CD provides all of the text images in Jpeg and PowerPoint formats and the detailed solutions to all text problems are delivered in our electronic solutions manual and organization system--COSMOS. COSMOS is a database management tool geared toward assembling homework assignments, tests, and quizzes.
Developing an intuitive understanding gives the students a more enduring understanding of the subject matter and also makes the course a more motivating and worthwhile experience for the students.
In addition to attracting attention and stimulating curiosity and interest, many concepts in fluid mechanics are not very intuitive. Providing numerous illustrations and photographs helps students to understand fluid flow through visualization in a way that is not so easily achieved by explaining the theory.
Parametric problems allow students to study the effects of certain variables in the problems on some quantities of interest, to plot the results, and to draw conclusions from the results obtained.
Most fluid mechanics textbook have very limited coverage (often a few paragraphs) of CFD. Realizing that most engineering curriculums do not allow a full course on CFD, this chapter helps make up for this educational deficiency by equipping students with adequate background on the strengths and limitations of CFD.
The material is this text can be covered using combined SI/English units or SI units alone, depending on the preference of the instructor.
The textbook and solutions manual is being accuracy checked by muliple instructors both at the manuscript and the page proof stage.
Author Biography
Yunus Cengel
Yunus A. Çengel (Turkey) is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.
John Cimbala
John Cimbala (University Park, PA) is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University
Table of Contents
1 Introduction and Basic Concepts
2 Properties of Fluids
3 Pressure and Fluid Statics
4 Fluid Kinematics
5 Bernoulli and Energy Equations
6 Momentum and Analysis of Flow Systems
7 Dimensional Analysis and Flow Systems
8 Flow in Pipes
9 Differential Analysis of Fluid Flow
10 Approximations of the Navier-Stokes Equation
11 Flow Over Bodies: Drag and Lift
12 Compressible Flow
13 Open-Channel Flow
14 Turbomachinery
15 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Appendices
1 Property Tables and Charts (SI Units)
2 Property Tables and Charts (English Units)
3 Introduction to EES
Supplements
COSMOS to accompany Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications
ISBN: 0072984740
Author(s): CENGEL
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