ABSTRACT

Reflecting the author’s years of industry and teaching experience, Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery features many innovative problems and their systematically worked solutions. To understand fundamental concepts and various conservation laws of fluid mechanics is one thing, but applying them to solve practical problems is another challenge. The book covers various topics in fluid mechanics, turbomachinery flowpath design, and internal cooling and sealing flows around rotors and stators of gas turbines.

As an ideal source of numerous practice problems with detailed solutions, the book will be helpful to senior-undergraduate and graduate students, teaching faculty, and researchers engaged in many branches of fluid mechanics. It will also help practicing thermal and fluid design engineers maintain and reinforce their problem-solving skills, including primary validation of their physics-based design tools.

chapter 2|30 pages

Control Volume Analysis

chapter 3|18 pages

Bernoulli Equation

Mechanical Energy Equation

chapter 4|34 pages

Compressible Flow

chapter 5|21 pages

Potential Flow

chapter 7|17 pages

Boundary Layer Flow

chapter 8|20 pages

Centrifugal Pumps and Fans

chapter 9|31 pages

Centrifugal Compressors

chapter 11|24 pages

Radial-Flow Gas Turbines

chapter 12|23 pages

Axial-Flow Gas Turbines

chapter 13|25 pages

Diffusers