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Summary
Summary
This concise and comprehensive book covers the basic concepts and principles of modern fluid mechanics. It examines the fundamental aspects of fluid motion including important fluid properties, regimes of flow, pressure variations in fluids at rest and in motion, methods of flow description and analysis. It expands on basic analysis techniques used to solve fluid mechanics problems, and stresses how flow phenomena are described mathematically, and when and how to use infinitesimal and finite control volumes.
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In this book appropriate for upper-division undergraduate students, Young and colleagues demonstrate difficult concepts through clear figures. The homework problems tend to be exercises rather than engineering problems; for example, in one chapter there are several exercises on manometers with multiple fluids. (It would have been quite informative to occasionally consider industrial problems, where manometers with multiple fluids are used realistically.) As a result, students will more appreciate fluid mechanics. Moreover, the topic of fluid kinematics remains somewhat a mystery to students, specifically the topic of streaklines. The book clearly illustrates, with excellent examples, the mathematical difference between pathlines, streamlines, and streaklines. However, the authors fail to show when one technique should be used in preference to others in practical engineering situations. In that regard, the usefulness of these topics will not be fully appreciated by students. It is a challenge indeed to present true-to-life problems that will aid in the appreciation of streaklines in other than a research setting. Subsequently, the concept of streaklines turns out to be another academic exercise, especially when later topics in the book do not require the use of pathlines or streaklines at all. Surprisingly, the book does not include an introduction to compressible fluid flow. Upper-division undergraduate students. R. N. Laoulache; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
