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Viscous Fluid Flow

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This book gives an excellent summary of viscous flow and is a valuable addition to any engineers bookshelf. A good knowledge of fluid mechanic fundamentals is essential to understand the material presented. This book is definitely not for a freshman. The author quickly covers the fundamental equations of fluid motion and then proceeds to discuss the viscous flow and boundary layer theory. Laminar boundary layers, transition, turbulent boundary layers and compressible boundary layers each receive a chapter. Each topic is reviewed and examples are given. The treatment is a little terse, which makes reading the book a tough job. Alot of excellent references are given and I would advise anybody serious about viscous flow to review this material as Whites treatment can be skimpy. The chapter on turbulent flow provides an excellent summary of useful empirical correlations and an introduction to the K-epsilon model. In summary, this is an excellent and reasonably comprehensive reference book(weak on boundary layers in rotating flows), but a poor book to learn from.

"Viscous Fluid Flow" is quite thorough and well thought out. I won't go so far as to say that it reads like a novel, but it flows quite nicely. This book is for senior undergraduate or first-year graduates. The topics contained within are quite advanced in comparison to typical undergraduate Fluid Mechanics. The only problem I had with this text is that at times (not often) the hierarchy of the topics would get jumbled. For example, the explanation for a topic might come before the topic was even introduced leading to some confusion. Regardless, this textbook is REQUIRED for the bookshelf of any serious Fluid Dynamicist.

Review Source: Graduate Mechanical Engineer, BE Mech. Eng.
Frank White did an excellent job with this book for my level of knowledge anyway. It provided exactly what I wanted:
1. Preliminary concepts section that overviews gives a fairly advanced thermodynamic look at fluid properties and models and boundary conditions. great at stating assumptions of models.
2. Derivation of navier stokes and energy equation along with introduction to non-dimensionalization and explains all the dimensionless numbers involved with viscous flow and heat transfer.
3. Very "follow-able" derivations of many solutions to navier-stokes equations, ie Couette, duct, suction, porous media flows, low Reynolds creep.
4. 100 page of approximate laminar boundary layer model derivations, mostly 2D with introduction to 3D BL's. Still need Schlichting's "Boundary Layer Theory". Would have liked to have more on seperation.
5. The rest of the text goes into the stability of boundary layers, incompressible and compressible turbulent flow, and compressible turbulent boundary layers. I have not gotten this far in the text yet but I'm sure it's well written and technically sound after the reading the first half.

Very well written book for people interested in learning yet expands to fairly technical areas.

As I see it, text books are meant to instruct the readers on the rules and such surrounding a specific subject. This book covers such a broad swath of topics that it is nearly impossible for the author to spend enough time on each individual topic. If you are looking for a reference book that has a good set of condensed equations, tables, and figures, this is a good book for you. However, if you actually want to learn about viscous fluid flow, you should probably look at another book.

This book is pretty good considering it is Viscous Fluids material. It won't hold your hand too much, so if you are not up to speed on fluid dynamics, you will probably get lost. But if you have just finished learning inviscid fluids, then this book makes a good next step.

This text does cover viscous flow topics very thoroughly but sometimes a little difficult to follow. Very few examples, but a good text for an upper level class. Not for an intro to viscous fluid flows.

I can follow most of the math. It's usually good about showing enough work on the derivations. Unfortunately this book has almost no examples; I would bet there are a dozen half assed examples in the entire book. Also this book does not discuss or use tensors which is how my professor does all his derivations. It would make a much better reference book for someone who already knows what they are doing, than a text book.

Was impressed at how quick I received the textbook. However, quality was under expectations. A lot of writing in the book, highlighting and folded pages.

The order was the correct book and edition. It was in good condition and was shipped in a timely manner.