An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics: Principles of Analysis and Design

By Stanley Middleman

Book Overview

This text is the outgrowth of Stanley Middleman’s years of teaching and contains more than sufficient materials to support a one-semester course in fluid dynamics. His primary belief in the classroom--and hence the material in this textbook--is that the development of a mathematical is central to the analysis and design of an engineering system or process. His text is therefore oriented toward teaching students how to develop mathematical representations of physical phenomena.

Great effort has been put forth to provide many examples of experimental data against which the results of modeling exercises can be compared and to expose students to the wide range of technologies of interest to chemical, environmental and bio engineering students.

Examples presented are motivated by real engineering applications and may of the problems are derived from the author’s years of experience as a consultant to companies whose businesses cover a broad spectrum of engineering technologies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471182095
• ISBN13: 9780471182092
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Not for beginners?

I read this book first when preparing tutorials in fluid mechanics for 3rd-year chemical engineering students. Maybe there are other textbooks which give more detailed derivations (although I'd like to see them!), but Middleman's text is one of the extremely rare books where mathematical derivations are balanced with detailed accounts of the motivation behind it all. In fluid mechanics, it seems almost unique in this respect, and I found it a pleasure to read.