Incompressible Flow, Third Edition is the updated and revised edition of Ronald Panton’s classic text on fluid mechanics. Beginning with basic principles, this Third Edition patiently develops the math and physics leading to major theories. The book provides a unified presentation of physics, mathematics, and engineering applications, along with a liberal supplement of helpful exercises and example problems. New features include chapters on the modern measurements of the pipe flow friction factor, expanded details on the mathematics of E2E2Y operator, the Jeffrey-Hamel solution and its limits with Reynolds number, and more. Complete with new problems, solvable with such PC-based calculation software as MathCAD and MATLAB, Incompressible Flow, Third Edition is a valuable resource for professionals in the mechanical, aerospace, civil, and chemical engineering fields.
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Highly useful and accessible coverage of fluid mechanics
Incompressible Flow, Third Edition is the updated and revised edition of Ronald Panton's classic text. It continues a respected tradition of providing an exceptionally clear, unified, and carefully paced introduction to advanced concepts in fluid mechanics. Beginning with basic principles, this Third Edition patiently develops the math and physics leading to major theories. Throughout, the book provides a unified presentation of physics, mathematics, and engineering applications, along with a liberal supplement of helpful exercises and example problems.
New features of Incompressible Flow, Third Edition include:
- Expanded, separate chapters on the lubrication approximation and Stokes flows
- New chapters on surface tension–driven flows and micro/nano flows
- Two examples of boundary layers beginning at infinity: plane flow on a wall that is under a plane aperture, and plane flow on the wall under a sluice gate
- Greater emphasis on the strain vector and how it's used to interpret vorticity stretching and turning
- A derivation of the mechanical energy equation for a region with arbitrary motion, illustrating how moving boundary work and flow work are convenient concepts but not basic physical ideas
- Modern measurements of the pipe flow friction factor
- Expanded details on the mathematics of E2E2Y operator
- The Jeffrey-Hamel solution and its limits with Reynolds number
Complete with new problems, solvable with such PC-based calculation software as MathCAD and MATLAB®, Incompressible Flow, Third Edition is a valuable resource for professionals in the mechanical, aerospace, civil, and chemical engineering fields.
About the Author
RONALD L. PANTON is the J. H. Herring Centennial Professor in Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
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This book presents a horrible introduction to graduate level fluid mechanics. Some faculties like to teach from this book because of a few well-written sections near the end of an otherwise disastrous attempt on the subject. Kundu or Currie present a much more comprehensive approach to introducing the wonderful subject of fluids and the different solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.
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The book is great, but FULL of erros. It looks like it never was corrected or edited. There are sign error on equations, missing terms is equations, bad correlation of equation numbers and so on. The overall quality of the book is excellent, but the errors kill it. Luckily the teacher of my class was the author himself so I could ask him and correct the errors as I was reading on. However, if you're buying this book and the author is not your teacher (most likely), then you'll run into some anoying troubles.
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Overall, not a bad text. Definitely written for engineers, though. Many of the equations are rewritten in different coordinate systems which I found unecessary. In addition, some results are just introduced as fact with much of the mathematical rigor used to derive them left out. The physical arguments and treatment of Exact Solutions to Navier-Stokes are excellent.
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dimensional unifier, normal viscous force, oscillating pressure gradient, plane flow case, turbulent wall layers, streamfunction equation, carrying vorticity, static meniscus, normal viscous stress, ideal vortex, boundary layer momentum equation, nonturbulent fluid, composite expansion, net viscous force, extra pressure drop, inviscid velocity, axisymmetric stagnation point, entrance profile, withdrawal velocity, boundary layer variables, vorticity flux, plane stagnation point, inviscid motion, inviscid flow, mechanical energy equation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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