Successful textbook on a very high scientific level

Emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics

Includes new sections about creeping flows, thin-film flow and flow through porous media

Successful textbook on a very high scientific level Emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics Includes new sections about creeping flows, thin-film flow and flow through porous media Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Zusammenfassung

Successful textbook on a very high scientific level

Emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics

Includes new sections about creeping flows, thin-film flow and flow through porous media

Inhalt
The Concept of the Continuum and Kinematics.- Fundamental Laws of Continuum Mechanics.- Constitutive Relations for Fluids.- Equations of Motion for Particular Fluids.- Hydrostatics..- Laminar Unidirectional Flows.- Fundamentals of Turbulent Flow.- Hydrodynamic Lubrication.- Stream Filament Theory.- Potential Flows.- Supersonic Flow.- Boundary Layer Theory.- Creeping Flows.