This book introduces the core ideas of fluid mechanics using both theoretical and experimental methods. The text presents a logical assembly of important ideas, approaches and specialist applications in one self-contained volume. Its unique focus combines the fundamental topics of fluid mechanics, such as equations of motion, ideal flows, viscous effects and turbulent flow. Engineering topics such as heat transfer and aerodynamics are briefly introduced. Full treatments of both incompressible and compressible flows are included. There is also a section of problems and worked solutions. The extensive material in this comprehensive text serves as a thorough background in fluid mechanics and the area of compressible flows.
Introductory Fluid Mechanics for Physicists and Mathematicians is a valuable resource for physicists and mathematicians, and for undergraduate and postgraduate students in both disciplines. Readers will gain a strong working knowledge of fluid mechanics and a detailed understanding which will allow them to contribute to the new and evolving areas of study that are constantly emerging in this area.
About the Author
Geoffrey Pert‘s first academic appointment was in 1967 at the University of Alberta in the Electrical Engineering Dept as an Assistant Professor. In 1970 he was appointed as a lecturer in Applied Physics at Hull and proceeded up the scale to Professor in 1981. At Hull he taught Dimensional Analysis, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer at different levels, amongst other material. In 1987 he transferred to York Physics Dept. as a Professor where he has taught Dimensional Analysis and Fluid Dynamics, and currently teach the course in fluid dynamics. His research began in 1962 on shock waves, but, when he joined Hull University, he moved into the field of laser produced plasmas. His work in this field has used fluid dynamics, particularly computational methods and he was elected FRS for this work in 1995.
Geoffrey Pert has taught fluid mechanics to undergraduate and postgraduate physicists for approximately 35 years.
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