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Since 1999 ?A First Course in Fluid Mechanics for Civil Engineers? has been a popular course textbook, offering fewer topics but in greater depth. This expanded 2nd edition still features a civil engineering perspective which are the consistent stress on the concept of head and the use of the total and piezometric head lines as qualitative tools. Emphasis is placed on the Euler equation in natural coordinates and the parallel flow assumption. The Bernoulli equation, derived by integrating the Euler equation along a streamline, is carefully distinguished from the mechanical energy equation, in which loss terms appear. Open channel flow and hydraulic models are treated in more depth than is customary. To maintain a reasonable length, topics such as boundary layers, drag, lift, potential flow, hydraulic machines, pipe networks, computational fluid dynamics, and compressible flow have been condensed or omitted.This 2nd Edition is still intended for a one-semester introduction to fluid mechanics for majors in civil engineering and related fields such as environmental and agricultural engineering. Over the years, this textbook has confirmed the merit of an introductory textbook on fluid mechanics seen from the perspective of students whose main interest is incompressible flow in a gravitational field. While maintaining this approach, this 2nd Edition incorporates many improvements. Perhaps the most significant is the increase in the number of homework problems from 216 to 775, far more than are needed for a semester course, allowing instructors to maintain freshness from semester to semester. This set includes a wide range of problem types in order to appeal to diverse student interests and learning styles. Both SI and U.S. Customary units are used in the problems and throughout the text. A section on ?Advice to the Student? has been added to provide guidance on effective study habits. The perennially confusing topic of uncertainty and significant digits is explained in a new appendix. All of the examples are now set in boxes to make them easier to locate and reference. Clarifications have been made throughout the text to improve comprehension, and new figures and photographs have been added.
This textbook is designed to accompany a first course in fluid mechanics for civil engineering students. The book presents the major fluid mechanics principles in a practical manner. The student will learn that fluids principles come from simple logic and need not be obscured by heavy handed mathematical derivations. The author is not only an academic, but a practicing civil engineer who understands the value of clarity.
A First Course in Fluid Mechanics is primarily devoted to the application of the laws of Newtonian mechanics to solve complex problems in fluid motion. The topics discussed include fluid properties and their role in fluid motion; fluid statics; fluid kinematics; Euler’s equations and Bernoulli’s energy equation; forms of irrotational flows; property of viscosity and the Navier–Stokes equations of motion; turbulence. A chapter on dimensional analysis and model similitude is included to emphasise the need for guided experimentation, presentation of results in generalised forms and interpretation of results obtained on the model to the prototype.
This well-established text book fills the gap between the general texts on fluid mechanics and the highly specialised volumes on hydraulic engineering. It covers all aspects of hydraulic science normally dealt with in a civil engineering degree course and will be as useful to the engineer in practice as it is to the student and the teacher.