Schaum's Outline of Fluid Dynamics

by Hughes, William; Brighton, John; Winowich, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780070311183
• ISBN10: 0070311188
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-19
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

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Author Biography

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.

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