§07§Latest developments on Fluid Mechanics. §16§The contents of this book covers the material required in the Fluid Mechanics Graduate Core Course (MEEN-621) and in Advanced Fluid Mechanics, a Ph. D-level elective course (MEEN-622), both of which I have been teaching at Texas A〓16§echanical engineering students, it is equally suitable for aerospace engineering, civil engineering, other engineering disciplines, and especially those practicing professionals who perform CFD-simulation on a routine basis and would like to know more about the underlying physics of the commercial codes they use. Furthermore, it is suitable for self study, provided that the reader has a sufficient knowledge of calculus and differential equations. In the past, because of the lack of advanced computational capability, the subject of fluid mechanics was artificially subdivided into inviscid, viscous (laminar, turbulent), incompressible, compressible, subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows. §04§Vector and Tensor Analysis, Applications to Fluid Mechanics.- Kinematics of Fluid Motion.- Differential Balances in Fluid Mechanics.- Integral Balances in Fluid Mechanics.- Inviscid Potential Flows.- Viscous Laminar Flow.- Laminar-Turbulent Transition.- Turbulent Flow, Modeling.- Free Turbulent Flow.- Boundary Layer Theory.- Compressible Flow. §13§§From the reviews:§"This graduate textbook aims at providing a coherent spread of the material required to gain knowledge of fluid mechanics. ... The derivation and explanations will definitely be helpful to the students and researchers ... . The author's decision to include the problems and projects at the end of each chapter will definitely be useful to the readers. The reviewer finds that the book is a useful addition to the existing graduate texts on fluid mechanics." (S. C. Rajvanshi, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1203, 2011)
