Joseph Katz

Introductory Fluid Mechanics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book familiarises students with the basic elements of fluid mechanics and provides a comprehensive foundation for more advanced courses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 851g
• ISBN-13: 9781107617131
• ISBN-10: 1107617138
• Artikelnr.: 40190591

Autorenporträt

"Dr. Joseph Katz is a professor at San Diego State University, born in Budapest, Hungary. He is married and has three children. Joseph belongs to engineering organizations such as the AIAA and SAE and enjoys restoring old cars, playing soccer, petting his cats, and driving fast cars (he has the speeding tickets to prove). He is the author of several books on aero/fluid mechanics including the popular Race Car Aerodynamics: Designing for Speed."

Inhaltsangabe

1. Basic concepts and fluid properties
2. The fluid dynamic equation
3. Fluid statics
4. Introduction to fluid in motion - one-dimensional (frictionless) flow
5. Viscous incompressible flow: 'exact solutions'
6. Dimension analysis, and high Reynolds number flows
7. The laminar boundary layer
8. High Reynolds number flow over bodies (incompressible)
9. Introduction to computational fluid mechanics (CFD)
10. Elements of inviscid compressible flow
11. Fluid machinery.