Fluid Mechanics With Engineering Applications [Hardcover]

E. Finnemore (Author), Joseph Franzini (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0072432020 | ISBN-13: 978-0072432022 | Edition: 10

This book is well known and well respected in the civil engineering market and has a following among civil engineers. This book is for civil engineers that teach fluid mechanics both within their discipline and as a service course to mechanical engineering students. As with all previous editions this 10th edition is extraordinarily accurate, and its coverage of open channel flow and transport is superior. There is a broader coverage of all topics in this edition of Fluid Mechanics with Engineering Applications. Furthermore, this edition has numerous computer-related problems that can be solved in Matlab and Mathcad.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 816 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 10 edition (October 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072432020
• ISBN-13: 978-0072432022
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #70 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Physics > Dynamics > Fluid Dynamics

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A comprehensive and understandable work on hydraulics..., September 25, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Fluid Mechanics With Engineering Applications (Hardcover)

As a lecturer and graduate student in water resource engineering, I have read numberous textbooks covering the topic of fluid mechanics. I have reviewed textbooks written by aeronautical and mechanical engineers, and find that the civil engineers, particularly Dr.'s Finnemore and Franzini, have done an exemplary job in writing a book that is clear and logical, yet spares no detail, in presenting the fundamentals of fluids to undergraduates and graduates alike. The book begins with definitions, viscocity, and hydrostatics, then moves along to open-channel hydraulics and waterhammer.

The authors discuss the details in terms of concepts, testing, and mathematical computations while using a minimum of complicated vector integrals. They continue to present "the big picture" of hydraulics even while explaining fluid theory - a student and lecturer could not ask for more. Therefore, it is with great pleasure that I laud this textbook and recommend it to any practicing civil or agricultural engineer, or to any student of engineering.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best hydraulic reference I have found & I use it regularly, August 15, 2008

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MomRuns & PE(CE)/PLS (Walnut Creek, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fluid Mechanics With Engineering Applications (Hardcover)

I own the 8th edition and have used it regulary since graduation 12 years ago as a practicing civil engineer designing water treatment plants. I have looked at many other fluid mechanics books over the years and have not found any equal to this one. I need to get the 10th edition and see how it has changed with Daugherty no longer around. There are other books that are more in-depth with theoretical analysis, but this one has the best balance betweeen theory and practical application for typical civil engineering projects.

1.0 out of 5 stars Clear as mud., August 31, 2011

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C. Atkinson (Logan, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fluid Mechanics With Engineering Applications (Hardcover)

I'm sorry but this book was not very helpful at all. If you are a professor, or someone trying to learn this stuff, please shop around first before settling on this book.