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Table of Contents

Introduction Fluid Statistics Mathematical Models of Fluid Motion Dimensional Analysis and Similitude Boundary Layer Flow and Flow in Pipes and Ducts Incompressible Potential Flow One-Dimensional Compressible Flow Two-Dimensional Compressible Flow Gasdynamics Incompressible Turbulent Flow Hypersonic Boundary Layer Flow Mangetohydrodynamics Non-Newtonian Fluids Appendix A: Some Properties of Fluids Appendix B: Units and Dimensions Appendix C: Some Basic Equations in Various Coordinate Systems Appendix D: Tables for Compressible Flow Appendix E: Cartesian Tensors Appendix F: Vector Identities Appendix G: Flow Measuring Techniques

About the Author

William F. Hughes, Ph.D., is professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. He was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University in England and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Sydney in Australia. John A. Brighton, Ph.D., is a dean of engineering at Pennsylvania State University and has taught at Purdue, Carnegie-Mellon, Michigan State, and Georgia Tech. Nicholas Winowich, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Tennesee, Knoxville, and a member of one of the foremost computational fluid dynamics research groups in the country.