A Brief Introduction To Fluid Mechanics, 5 edition

Key Features

Illustrations, Photographs, and Videos

Fluid mechanics has always been a “visual” subject—much can be learned by viewing various aspects of fluid flow. In this new edition we have made several changes to reflect the fact that with new advances in technology, this visual component is becoming easier to incorporate into the learning environment, for both access and delivery, and is an important component to the learning of fluid mechanics. Thus, approximately 372 new photographs and illustrations have been added to the book. Some of these are within the text material; some are used to enhance the example problems; and some are included as marginal figures of the type shown in the left margin to more clearly illustrate various points discussed in the text. In addition, 76 new video segments have been added, bringing the total number of video segments to 152. These video segments illustrate many interesting and practical applications of real-world fluid phenomena. Many involve new CFD (computational fluid dynamics) material. Each video segment is identified at the appropriate location in the text material by a video icon and thumbnail photograph of the type shown in the left margin. Each video segment has a separate associated text description of what is shown in the video. There are many homework problems that are directly related to the topics in the videos.