Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline born of the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face profound issues of productivity and competitiveness that require engineering solutions, among others. The Mechanical Engineering Series is a series featuring graduate texts and research monographs intended to address the need for information in contemporary areas of mechanical engineering. The series is conceived as a comprehensive one that covers a broad range of concentrations important to mechanical engineering graduate education and research. We are fortunate to have a distinguished roster of consulting editors, each an expert in one of the areas of concentration. The names of the consulting editors are listed on the following page of this volume. The areas of concentration are applied mechanics, biomechanics, computational mechanics, dynamic systems and control, energetics, mechanics of materials, processing, thermal science, and tribology. Professor Winer, the consulting editor for tribology, and I are pleased to present this volume of the series: Laminar Viscous Flow, by Professor Constantinescu. The selection of this volume underscores again the interest of the Mechanical Engineering Series to provide our readers with topical monographs as well as graduate texts.

Inhalt
1 Properties of Fluids.- 1.1. Physical Properties of Fluids.- 1.2. Transfer Properties.- 2 Fundamental Equations of Viscous Flow.- 2.1. Kinematics of Fluid Flow.- 2.2. Equations of Motion.- 2.3. The Energy Equation.- 2.4 Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinate Systems.- 3 Basic Equations and Flow Pattern.- 3.1. Posing the Problem of Fluid Flow.- 3.2. Dimensionless Parameters in Viscous Fluid Flow.- 3.3. Viscous Flow Pattern.- 3.4. Other Forms of the Basic Equations.- 4 Steady Parallel Flow of Incompressible Fluids.- 4.1. Plane Parallel Flow.- 4.2. General Couette Flow.- 4.3. Duct Flow.- 4.4. Steady Parallel Flow of Viscoplastic Media.- 4.5. Influence of Porous Surfaces.- 5 Other Solutions of Navier-Stokes Equations (Steady Incompressible Flow).- 5.1. Flow upon Concentric Circles.- 5.2. Motions upon Concurrent Lines.- 5.3. Self-Similar Solutions.- 5.4. Other Solutions.- 6 Unsteady Viscous Incompressible Flow.- 6.1. Parallel Unsteady Flow.- 6.2. Other Unsteady Motions.- 7 Thermal Effects in Incompressible Flow.- 7.1. Thermal Effects in Plane Couette Flow.- 7.2. Temperature Field in Flow Near Walls.- 7.3. Temperature Field in Duct Flow.- 8. Compressible Viscous Fluid Flow.- 8.1. Flow between Parallel Plates.- 8.2. Shock Wave Structure.- 8.3. Viscosity Effccts in Unsteady Flow.- 9 Slow Viscous Flow in Thin Layers (Hydrodynamic Lubrication).- 9.1. Equations of Motion.- 9.2. Liquid Film Lubrication.- 9.3. Gas Film Lubrication.- 9.4. Elasto-hydrodynamic Lubrication.- 10 Slow Viscous Flow.- 10.1. General Remarks.- 10.2. Slow Rotation of a Viscous Fluid.- 10.3. Flow Around Bodies of Revolution.- 10.4. Slow Plane Flow.- 11 Visco-inertial Flow in Thin Layers.- 11.1. Incompressible Flow in Thin Layers.- 11.2. Compressible Flow in Thin Layers.- 12 Visco-inertial Flow Around Bodies.- 12.1.Small Perturbation Slow Flow (Oseen Flow).- 12.2. Other Approximations for Visco-inertial Flow.- References.