Fluid Mechanics And Machinery

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New Age International, 2007 - Fluid dynamics - 912 pages
This Book Presents A Thorough And Comprehensive Treatment Of Both The Basic As Well As The More Advanced Concepts In Fluid Mechanics. The Entire Range Of Topics Comprising Fluid Mechanics Has Been Systematically Organised And The Various Concepts Are Clearly Explained With The Help Of Several Solved Examples.Apart From The Fundamental Concepts, The Book Also Explains Fluid Dynamics, Flow Measurement, Turbulent And Open Channel Flows And Dimensional And Model Analysis. Boundary Layer Flows And Compressible Fluid Flows Have Been Suitably Highlighted.Turbines, Pumps And Other Hydraulic Systems Including Circuits, Valves, Motors And Ram Have Also Been Explained. The Book Provides 225 Fully Worked Out Examples And More Than 1600 Questions Including Numerical Problems And Objective Questions. The Book Would Serve As An Exhaustive Text For Both Undergraduate And Post- Graduate Students Of Mechanical, Civil And Chemical Engineering. Amie And Competitive Examination Candidates As Well As Practising Engineers Would Also Find This Book Very Useful.
 

Contents

Properties of Fluids 119
1
Compressible Fluid Flow
2
Fluid Statics 2062
20
Fluid Kinematics
63
3656
74
13
76
Terms of Cylindrical Polar Coordinates
90
Analytic Functions
115
Objective Questions
439
Answers
445
3
451
12
479
Flow through Open Channels
520
Specific Energy in Open Channel Flow
526
Critical Flow and Control Sections
532
Uniform Flow in Open Channels
540

Fluid Dynamics
136
Importance of Momentum Equation
155
Curved Path
168
Flow Measurement 197276
197
17
247
Flow through Pipes
274
Viscous Flows 332365
332
Boundary Layer Flows 366416
366
12
374
Turbulent Flows
417
Turbulent Flow near Solid Boundaries
424
Pipeline Resistance
431
1
622
Hydraulic Turbines
662
21
720
Pumps
755
14
786
Objective Questions
805
Short Answer Questions
812
General Problems
818
Hydraulic Systems
830
Unit Conversion Ratios
866
Bibliography
874
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