Fluid Mechanics: An Interactive Text [CD-ROM]

J. Liggett (Author), D. Caughey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0784403104 | ISBN-13: 978-0784403105 | Edition: CD-Rom

Fluid mechanics is an important and often required subject in civil, environmental, chemical and mechanical engineering curricula; it is offered by every college of engineering and taken by over 60,000 students annually. Fluid Mechanics: An Interactive Text is the first multimedia text for fluid mechanics courses and provides a definitive textbook in this field of study. Comprised of 15 chapters plus appendices and index, this CD also contains video, expansive glossary, active equations and graphs, MatLab functions, full user manual and teaching tips for professors. >System requirements: PC 486 DX2/66 or faster with Windows 3.1 or Windows 95; 16 MB RAM minimum; Quick Time for Windows 2.02 or higher (available on this CD); Cd-Rom Drive 4X or faster; VGA monitor or better. Mac: Macintosh IIci or faster; 16 MB RAM minimum; System 7.1 with Quick Time ext. 2.0 or higher (available on this CD); Cd-Rom Drive 4X or faster; color monitor with 640x480 resolution or better.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 1 pages
• Publisher: AIAA; CD-Rom edition (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0784403104
• ISBN-13: 978-0784403105
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,303,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Book is OK, May 1, 2006

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A civil engineer "Marco" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fluid Mechanics (Hardcover)

The Book is quite ok for introductory courses as well as applications in Hydraulics. It is biased towards civil engineering and in my opinion is a book worthy to purchase.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I suffered this one...but..., July 13, 2003

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Patrick Thompson (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fluid Mechanics (Hardcover)

Okay, I am an engineer who suffered this book through three- count 'em- fluid mehcanics subjects (Fluids I, II and yes, you guessed it, III! ah the pretentions of roman numerals should have warned me...alas I digress...)

Okay the fact is with this book you need three things to make it work: 1) a damn good lecturer, 2) Some effort to do the problems and 3)Schaum's solved problems in fluid mechanics or something similiar.

I do disagree that it is impossible. Or REALLY hard or written to impress his professor friends...it just requires some thought...Like anything of a less common nature...less people are going to understand it. That's the nature of the beast! Sure there are many places where it falls down...particularly in the first three chapters. But later on it becomes quite good. From chapter 3 onwards it is a useful work, particularly in Part 2 on applications of fluid mechanics.

Covers: fluid propoerties (very briefly!), Fluid statics (need the ability to do vectors to be able to do this chapter!), Fluid flow (calculus required!). Dimensional Similitude (this is cool stuff...), Fluid resistance, Compressible flow and Ideal fluid flow...comprise part 1. Part 2 is Fluid Measurement (ie. Weirs, Turbulence, viscosity, pressure, orifices...etc), Turbomachinery, Closed conduit flow, Open channel flow (not bad either), unsteady flow (good old waterhammer! How to stop water hammer when you turn on a tap/faucet...turn on another one at the same time of the same heat- hot or cold!) and some appendices on mathematical techniques: SImpsons rule, Bisection method, Newton-Raphson, Runge-Kutta and physical propoerties of some fluids. Answers (not worked) are provided from even numbered questions.

Put it this way: if you can work through this book then you KNOW you understand fluid mechanics, so in that respect it gets a third star: it's a good yardstick of your ability. But for all that it is very disheartening, as it always is, to learn that one may not be a clever as one things one is and this is a book to expose shortcomings such as these. COnsider a challenge book: like everest...see the hill take the hill and then jeer it because you've bested it. Guess this book just takes that kind of person: pesistant, dogged and damn sure not to let it beat them.

If you're a casual learner or not so keen on challenger yourself with something so tragic as fluid mechanics...avoid this book like the plague because you'll waste your money and probably damage something when you hurl the book with frustration!

Hope that helps...:)

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars HARD-TO-UNDERSTAND, September 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fluid Mechanics (Hardcover)

This book is not good at all FOR STUDENTS. The organization is confusing and mathematics used to derive the equation does not show any physical meaning. Examples given are confusing and misleading. Avoid this book at any cost.