The seventh edition of Fluid Mechanics offers students a clear and comprehensive presentation of the material that demonstrates the progression from physical concepts to engineering applications. The book helps students to see the practical importance of fluid mechanics fundamentals. The wide variety of topics gives instructors many options for their course and is a useful resource to students long after graduation. The problem-solving approach is presented at the start of the book and carefully integrated in all examples. Students can progress from general examples to those involving design, multiple steps, and computer usage.

Key Features New to This Edition

•  Bernoulli presentation revised and moved to partner with linear momentum

•  New material on microflow concepts

•  Subheadings explaining each group of problems

•  Over 300 new problems

• Stimulating new contemporary examples, such as a flying car, kite-driven ships, a vehicle driven by a wind turbine, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and Rocket Man's wings

1      Introduction

2      Pressure Distribution in a Fluid

3      Integral Relations for a Control Volume

4      Differential Relations for Fluid Flow

5      Dimensional Analysis and Similarity

6      Viscous Flow in Ducts

7      Flow Past Immersed Bodies

8      Potential Flow and Computational Fluid Dynamics

9      Compressible Flow

10    Open-Channel Flow

11    Turbomachinery

Appendix A Physical Properties of Fluids

Appendix B Compressible Flow Tables

Appendix C Conversion Factors

Appendix D Equations of Motion in Cylindrical Coordinates