Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals and Applications 3rd Edition by Yunus Cengel and John Cimbala 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.
This text features more illustrations and photographs than other fluid mechanics text. It emphasizes the physical aspects of fluid mechanics in addition to mathematical representations and manipulations. This book allows instructors topic flexibility. A wealth of material on the history of fluid mechanics is integrated throughout.
The authors include examples generated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) throughout the text, and they provide an introductory chapter on CFD. Application Spotlights--real-world applications of fluid mechanics (written by guest authors)—are featured in many chapters. Every chapter contains worked-out example problems. The authors use a consistent approach in problem solving while maintaining their informal conversational style. This text contains over 1600 homework problems.
Many problems in fluid mechanics require more than just knowledge of the subject, but also physical intuition and experience. Our hope is that this book, through its careful explanations of concepts and its use of numerous practical examples, sketches, figures, and photographs, bridges the gap between knowledge and proper application of that knowledge.
Fluid mechanics is a mature subject; the basic equations and approximations are well established and can be found in numerous introductory fluid mechanics books. The books are distinguished from one another in the way the material is presented. An accessible fluid mechanics book should present the material in a progressive order from simple to more difficult, building each chapter upon foundations laid down in previous chapters.
In this way, even the traditionally challenging aspects of fluid mechanics can be learned effectively. Fluid mechanics is by its very nature a highly visual subject, and students learn more readily by visual stimulation. It is therefore imperative that a good fluid mechanics book also provide quality figures, photographs, and visual aids that help to explain the significance and meaning of the mathematical expressions.
Book Details
Hardcover: 1024 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 3 edition (January 30, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073380326
ISBN-13: 978-0073380322
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