Incompressible Flow (Hardcover, 5th)

Preface xi

About the Companion Website xii

1 Continuum Mechanics 1

2 Thermodynamics 14

3 Vector Calculus and Index Notation 26

4 Kinematics of Local Fluid Motion 50

5 Basic Laws 69

6 Newtonian Fluids and the Navier?Stokes Equations 105

7 Some Incompressible Flow Patterns 121

8 Dimensional Analysis 149

9 Elements of Compressible Flow 178

10 Incompressible Flow 191

11 Some Solutions of the Navier?Stokes Equations 212

12 Streamfunctions and the Velocity Potential 256

13 Vorticity Dynamics 278

14 Flows at Moderate Reynolds Numbers 314a

15 Asymptotic Analysis Methods 360

16 Characteristics of High-Reynolds-Number Flows 393

17 Kinematic Decomposition of Flow Fields 413

18 Ideal Flows in a Plane 422

19 Three-Dimensional Ideal Flows 483

20 Boundary Layers 512

21 Flow at Low Reynolds Numbers 584

22 Lubrication Approximation 626

23 Surface Tension Effects 645

24 Introduction to Microflows 681

25 Stability and Transition 711

26 Turbulent Flows 743

27 Gas Dynamics 796

Problems 842

References 843

Index 859