1st Edition
Fundamental Fluid Mechanics for the Practicing Engineer
By James W. Murdock
Copyright 1993
440 Pages
by
CRC Press
440 Pages
by
CRC Press
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A step-by-step guide, containing tutorial examples that serve as models for all concepts presented. This text contains properties of nearly 50 fluids, including density and viscosity data for compressed water and superheated steam, and characteristics of areas, pipes and tubing.
Basic definitions; fluid statics; fluid kinematics; fluid dynamics and energy relations; gas dynamics; dimensionless parameters. Appendices: fluid properties; dimensions, unit systems and conversion factors; properties of areas, pipes and tubing.
Biography
James W. Murdock
"With characteristics of a handbook and a textbook, this book should be useful for either reference or review. . ..topics can be readily accessed without the need for a sequential reading of the text. . . .develop[s] fluid mechanics from basic principles and without mathematical complexity. "
---Applied Mechanics Reviews
