Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics - Hardcover

Munson, Bruce R.; Young, Donald F.; Okiishi, Theodore H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047185526X ISBN 13: 9780471855262

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1990

Synopsis

This study presents the concepts of fluid mechanics in a fashion that allows the student to grasp abstract or difficult topics both physically and mathematically. Bridging the gap between civil and mechanical engineering courses, the text includes a wide variety of topics. Basic flow concepts and examples based on the Bernouilli Equation are presented early on in the text to motivate student interest and everyday examples of fluid mechanics are stressed throughout. High quality problems (ten per cent of which are computer problems) aid a better student understanding of the topic.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Master fluid mechanics with the #1 text in the field!

 Effective pedagogy, everyday examples, an outstanding collection of practical problems––these are just a few reasons why Munson, Young, and Okiishi’s Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics is the best–selling fluid mechanics text on the market. In each new edition, the authors have refined their primary goal of helping you develop the skills and confidence you need to master the art of solving fluid mechanics problems. 

 This new Fifth Edition includes many new problems, revised and updated examples, new Fluids in the News case study examples, new introductory material about computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and the availability of FlowLab for solving simple CFD problems.

Access special resources online

New copies of this text include access to resources on the book’s website, including:

• 80 short Fluids Mechanics Phenomena videos, which illustrate various aspects of real–world fluid mechanics.
• Review Problems for additional practice, with answers so you can check your work.
• 30 extended laboratory problems that involve actual experimental data for simple experiments. The data for these problems is provided in Excel format.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics problems to be solved with FlowLab software.

Student Solution Manual and Study Guide

A Student Solution Manual and Study Guide is available for purchase, including essential points of the text, “Cautions” to alert you to common mistakes, 109 additional example problems with solutions, and complete solutions for the Review Problems.

From the Inside Flap

Bruce R. Munson, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Mechanics, has been a faculty member at Iowa State university since 1974. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue university and his Ph.D degree from the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department of the university of Minnesota in 1970.

From 1970 to 1974, Dr.Munson was on the mechanical engineering faculty of Duke University. From 1964 to 1966, he worked as an engineer in the jet engine fuel control department of Bendix Aerospace Corporation, South Bend, Indiana.

Dr. Munson′s main professional activity has been in the area of fluid mechanics education and research. He has been responsible for the development of many fluid mechanics courses for studies in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, engineering science, and agricultural engineering and is the recipient of an Iowa State university Superior engineering Teacher Award and the Iowa State University Alumni Association Faculty Citation.

He has authored and coauthored many theoretical and experimental technical papers on hydrodynamic stability, low Reynolds number flow, secondary flow, and the applications of viscous incompressible flow. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Engineers, The American Physical Society, and the American society for Engineering Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047185526X
• ISBN 13: 9780471855262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 844