Viscous Fluid Flow

Engineers in mechanical, chemical and process fields increasingly need to understand fluids as new high-performance materials emerge and change quickly. This text shows how basic engineering principles can be applied to the kinds of fluid flow found in processing and related work. It builds the mathematical foundations of fluid mechanics from the ground up, with a focus on Newtonian fluids. The ideas carry over to non-Newtonian fluids with relatively little change. Worked examples appear throughout, and each chapter closes with problems that put its theory to use and yield characteristic results. The authors also point out that fluid mechanics matters well beyond fluids specialists, since researchers in many disciplines rely on the same governing principles, equations and analytical, computational and experimental methods.