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This text is aimed primarily at students studying for a degree in mechanical engineering or any other branch of engineering where fluid mechanics is a core subject. Aeronautical (or aerospace), chemical, and civil engineering are all disciplines where fluid mechanics plays an essential rôle. That is not to say that fluid flow is of no significance in other areas, such as biomedical engineering. The human body involves the flow of several different fluids, some quite ordinary such as air in the respiratory system and water-like urine in the renal system. Other fluids, like blood in the circulatory system, and synovial fluid, which lubricates the joints, have complex non-Newtonian properties, as do many synthetic liquids such as paint, slurries, and pastes. A brief introduction to the rheology and flow characteristics of non-Newtonian liquids is given in Chapters 2, 15, and 16.
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- Introduction
- Fluids and fluids properties
- Unit of measurement, dimensions and dimensional analysis
- Pressure variation in a fluid at rest (hydrostatics)
- Hydrostatic force exerted on a submerged surface
- Bernoulli’s equation
- Engineering applications of Bernoulli’s equation
- Linear momentum equation and hydrodynamic forces
- Compressible fluid flow
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