Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Author: Gui Keting
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is a fluid mechanics textbook for engineering university students. It strives to reflect the achievements of the "Teaching Reform Plan for Higher Education Towards the 21st Century" and aligns with international trends, emphasizing key points, strengthening fundamentals, connecting theory with practice, and applying knowledge to real-world scenarios. Its main contents include fluid physical properties, fluid statics, flow characteristics, fundamentals of dynamic analysis, dimensional analysis and similarity principles, internal and external flows of incompressible viscous fluids, external inviscid flows, compressible fluid flows, computational fluid dynamics, etc. Each chapter is accompanied by exercises for readers to practice. This book is suitable for undergraduate students in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental science, energy, and power engineering at universities. The book first introduces fluids and their physical properties, the equilibrium characteristics of fluids, and the laws of fluid motion. It then presents three fundamental methods of fluid mechanics: control volume analysis, differential analysis, and dimensional analysis. Subsequently, through a comparative analysis of incompressible fluid internal and external flows, viscous and inviscid fluids, compressible and incompressible flows, it provides an in-depth introduction to the conditions, characteristics, and flow patterns of various flow states.