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Completely redesigned in full color, with additional pedagogical features, all designed to engage today’s students:
- NEW! Includes new full-color photos and illustrations of techniques, processes, and products for images with greater realism, technical clarity, consistency, and quality–engaging students visually and helping them understand concepts more rapidly and intuitively.
- NEW! Contains redesigned Big Picture chapter openers with new full-color photos or drawings, engaging students by showing real products and systems where fluid dynamics principles are used–engaging instructors and students in a dialogue about fluid dynamics applications and how their personal experiences relate to the concepts being taught.
- NEW! Color highlighting of major formulae and definitions–making it easier for students to study and review.
- NEW! Includes refined Exploration sections throughout–encouraging students to get personally involved with the concepts presented in each chapter.
Provides more hands-on practice and real-world applications, including new problems and software:
- NEW! Includes online downloadable access to a demo of PIPE-FLO®, one of the world’s leading software packages for analysis and design of fluid flow systems—enabling students to solve problems in fluid mechanics using the same tools professional engineers use in industries including petroleum, chemical processing, fluid power, plant engineering, pharmaceuticals, and electronics manufacturing.
- NEW! Provides guidance on using PIPE-FLO® software in six chapters through example problems demonstrating its features—preparing students to solve realistic problems with a specially adapted version of the industry-scale PIPE-FLO® software reducing the time it takes for them to become productive and valuable engineering team members.
- NEW! 1,000+ real-world example problems, now based on actual scenarios—gives students more realistic practice with the problems they will actually be called upon to solve.
- NEW! Includes access to the PUMP-FLO® program providing performance data for hundreds of commercially available centrifugal pumps—enabling students to solve pump-related problems with the same data professionals use.
- NEW! Includes both individual and team-oriented design problems—helping students learn the best approaches to design and analysis both on their own and working with colleagues.
- NEW! Over 40 practical computer programming assignments—offering even more opportunities to use computers to solve design and analysis problems.
- NEW! Presents updated applications throughout, including industrial pumped fluid distribution systems; fluid power; HVAC; flow in materials processing systems; water and waste water systems; fluid storage and distribution systems; and open channel flow—preparing students to handle fluid mechanics problems in mechanical, chemical, civil, and environmental engineering.
- NEW! Spreadsheets and spreadsheet techniques for solving several practical fluid mechanics problems—helping students utilize standard spreadsheet tools they may already be familiar with.
- NEW! Contains new Supplemental Problems in several chapters—giving students and instructors new ways of applying fluid mechanics.
Updated and refined to reflect the latest products, tools, and techniques:
- NEW! Even stronger focus on the design and analysis of pumped fluid flow systems, with a theory/applications approach–combines theory with modern applications, components, and systems, enabling instructors to structure a course that meets the requirements of students needing a strong base for further study, as well as students preparing to quickly enter industry.
- NEW! Expanded and updated coverage of hose, plastic pipe, and tubing; a wider variety of pumps and viscosity measurement devices; and computational fluid mechanics techniques–preparing students to work with today’s products and approaches.
- NEW! Includes 9″ x 16″ poster of the Moody diagram–making this highly-detailed, complex graph more usable, and helping students obtain more consistent results for problems involving the diagram.
- NEW! Improved presentation of graphical tools for selecting pipe sizes, with usage examples in later chapters and projects–making it easier for students to accurately select pipe sizes.
- NEW! Improved discussion of computational fluid graphics with attractive new graphics that are highly relevant to pipe flow–helping students understand and apply computational techniques more effectively.
- NEW! Updated, expanded, and refined coverage of the use of K-factors (resistance coefficients), based on the latest version of the Crane Technical Paper 410 (TP 410)–preparing students to utilize the most current values and techniques.
- NEW! Includes expanded coverage of the flow coefficient and its applications–helping students accurately evaluate relationships between flow rate and pressure drop across valves, and use flow coefficients for control. NEW! Improved, updated, and deeper coverage of pipeline system design principles, including greater consistency with TP 410 and examples using a specialty demo version of the professional PIPE-FLO® software—preparing students to apply the principles of fluid mechanics more effectively.
- NEW! Expands and integrates the use of metric units in several parts of the book, including metric-DN Schedule 40 and 80 steel pipes; adds new metric–only problems; and presents new appendix tables with metric sizes for steel, copper, and plastic tubing–preparing students to succeed in global engineering environments that rely primarily or entirely on metric measurements.
- NEW! Updated data available in many chapters and in this book’s uniquely detailed appendices–ensuring that students have access to the most accurate and detailed data for problem-solving and design of pumped fluid flow systems.
1. The Nature of Fluids and the Study of Fluid Mechanics
2. Viscosity of Fluids
3. Pressure Measurement
4. Forces Due to Static Fluids
5. Buoyancy and Stability
6. Flow of Fluids and Bernoulli’s Equation
7. General Energy Equation
8. Reynolds Number, Laminar Flow, Turbulent Flow, and Energy Losses Due to Friction
9. Velocity Profiles for Circular Sections and Flow in Noncircular Sections
10. Minor Losses
11. Parallel and Branching Pipeline Systems
12. Pump Selection and Application
13. Open-Channel Flow
14. Flow Measurement
15. Forces Due to Fluids in Motion
16. Drag and Lift
17. Fans, Blowers, Compressors, and the Flow of Gases
18. Flow of Air in Ducts
APPENDICES
A. Properties of Water
B. Properties of Common Liquids
C. Typical Properties of Petroleum Lubricating Oils
D. Variation of Viscosity with Temperature
E. Properties of Air
F. Dimensions of Steel Pipe
G. Dimensions of Steel Tubing
H. Dimensions of Type K Copper Tubing
I. Dimensions of Ductile Iron Pipe
J. Areas of Circles
K. Conversion Factors
L. Properties of Areas
M. Properties of Solids
N. Gas Constant, Adiabatic Exponent, and Critical Pressure Ratio for Selected Gases
Answers to Selected Problems
Index
The leading applications-oriented approach to engineering fluid mechanics is now in full color, with integrated software, new problems, and extensive new coverage.
Now in full color with an engaging new design, Applied Fluid Mechanics, Seventh Edition, is the fully updated edition of the most popular applications-oriented approach to engineering fluid mechanics. It offers a clear and practical presentation of all basic principles of fluid mechanics (both statics and dynamics), tying theory directly to real devices and systems used in mechanical, chemical, civil, and environmental engineering. The 7th edition offers new real-world example problems and integrates the use of an online downloadable demo of world-renowned PIPE-FLO® software for piping system analysis and design. It presents new procedures for problem-solving and design; more realistic and higher quality illustrations; and more coverage of many topics, including hose, plastic pipe, tubing, pumps, viscosity measurement devices, and computational fluid mechanics. Full-color images and color highlighting make charts, graphs, and tables easier to interpret organize narrative material into more manageable “chunks,” and make all of this text’s content easier to study.
Teaching and Learning Experience
This applications-oriented introduction to fluid mechanics has been redesigned and improved to be more engaging, interactive, and pedagogically effective.
- Completely redesigned in full color, with additional pedagogical features, all designed to engage today’s students: This edition contains many new full-color images, upgraded to improve realism, consistency, graphic quality, and relevance. New pedagogical features have been added to help students explore ideas more widely and review material more efficiently.
- Provides more hands-on practice and real-world applications, including new problems: Includes new real-world example problems and supplementary problems. Students can access an online downloadable demo of the popular PIPE-FLO® software to complete select activities.
- Updated and refined to reflect the latest products, tools, and techniques: Contains updated data and analysis techniques, improved problem solving and design techniques, new content on many topics, and extensive new references.
For all fluid mechanics, hydraulics, and related courses in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Chemical, Fluid Power, and Civil Engineering Technology and Engineering programs.
The leading applications-oriented approach to engineering fluid mechanics is now in full color, with integrated software, new problems, and extensive new coverage.
Now in full color with an engaging new design, Applied Fluid Mechanics, Seventh Edition, is the fully updated edition of the most popular applications-oriented approach to engineering fluid mechanics. It offers a clear and practical presentation of all basic principles of fluid mechanics (both statics and dynamics), tying theory directly to real devices and systems used in mechanical, chemical, civil, and environmental engineering. The 7th edition offers new real-world example problems and integrates the use of an online downloadable demo of world-renowned PIPE-FLO® software for piping system analysis and design. It presents new procedures for problem-solving and design; more realistic and higher quality illustrations; and more coverage of many topics, including hose, plastic pipe, tubing, pumps, viscosity measurement devices, and computational fluid mechanics. Full-color images and color highlighting make charts, graphs, and tables easier to interpret organize narrative material into more manageable “chunks,” and make all of this text’s content easier to study.
Teaching and Learning Experience
This applications-oriented introduction to fluid mechanics has been redesigned and improved to be more engaging, interactive, and pedagogically effective.
- Completely redesigned in full color, with additional pedagogical features, all designed to engage today’s students: This edition contains many new full-color images, upgraded to improve realism, consistency, graphic quality, and relevance. New pedagogical features have been added to help students explore ideas more widely and review material more efficiently.
- Provides more hands-on practice and real-world applications, including new problems: Includes new real-world example problems and supplementary problems. Students can access an online downloadable demo of the popular PIPE-FLO® software to complete select activities.
- Updated and refined to reflect the latest products, tools, and techniques: Contains updated data and analysis techniques, improved problem solving and design techniques, new content on many topics, and extensive new references.
For all fluid mechanics, hydraulics, and related courses in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Chemical, Fluid Power, and Civil Engineering Technology and Engineering programs.
The leading applications-oriented approach to engineering fluid mechanics is now in full color, with integrated software, new problems, and extensive new coverage.
Now in full color with an engaging new design, Applied Fluid Mechanics, Seventh Edition, is the fully updated edition of the most popular applications-oriented approach to engineering fluid mechanics. It offers a clear and practical presentation of all basic principles of fluid mechanics (both statics and dynamics), tying theory directly to real devices and systems used in mechanical, chemical, civil, and environmental engineering. The 7th edition offers new real-world example problems and integrates the use of world-renowned PIPE-FLO® software for piping system analysis and design. It presents new procedures for problem-solving and design; more realistic and higher quality illustrations; and more coverage of many topics, including hose, plastic pipe, tubing, pumps, viscosity measurement devices, and computational fluid mechanics. Full-color images and color highlighting make charts, graphs, and tables easier to interpret organize narrative material into more manageable “chunks,” and make all of this text’s content easier to study.
Teaching and Learning Experience
This applications-oriented introduction to fluid mechanics has been redesigned and improved to be more engaging, interactive, and pedagogically effective.
- Completely redesigned in full color, with additional pedagogical features, all designed to engage today’s students: This edition contains many new full-color images, upgraded to improve realism, consistency, graphic quality, and relevance. New pedagogical features have been added to help students explore ideas more widely and review material more efficiently.
- Provides more hands-on practice and real-world applications, including new problems: Includes new real-world example problems and supplementary problems. Students can access an online downloadable demo of the popular PIPE-FLO® software to complete select activities.
- Updated and refined to reflect the latest products, tools, and techniques: Contains updated data and analysis techniques, improved problem solving and design techniques, new content on many topics, and extensive new references.
Features
Completely redesigned in full color, with additional pedagogical features, all designed to engage today’s students:
- NEW! Includes new full-color photos and illustrations of techniques, processes, and products for images with greater realism, technical clarity, consistency, and quality—engaging students visually and helping them understand concepts more rapidly and intuitively
- NEW! Contains redesigned Big Picture chapter openers with new full-color photos or drawings, engaging students by showing real products and systems where fluid dynamics principles are used—engaging instructors and students in a dialogue about fluid dynamics applications and how their personal experiences relate to the concepts being taught
- NEW! Color highlighting of major formulae and definitions—making it easier for students to study and review
- NEW! Includes refined Exploration sections throughout—encouraging students to get personally involved with the concepts presented in each chapter
Provides more hands-on practice and real-world applications, including new problems and software:
- NEW! Includes online downloadable access to a demo of PIPE-FLO®, one of the world’s leading software packages for analysis and design of fluid flow systems—enabling students to solve problems in fluid mechanics using the same tools professional engineers use in industries including petroleum, chemical processing, fluid power, plant engineering, pharmaceuticals, and electronics manufacturing.
- NEW! Provides guidance on using PIPE-FLO® software in six chapters through example problems demonstrating its features—preparing students to solve realistic problems with a specially adapted version of the industry-scale PIPE-FLO® software reducing the time it takes for them to become productive and valuable engineering team members.
- NEW! 1,000+ real-world example problems, now based on actual scenarios—gives students more realistic practice with the problems they will actually be called upon to solve.
- NEW! Includes access to the PUMP-FLO® program providing performance data for hundreds of commercially available centrifugal pumps—enabling students to solve pump-related problems with the same data professionals use.
- NEW! Includes both individual and team-oriented design problems—helping students learn the best approaches to design and analysis both on their own and working with colleagues.
- NEW! Over 40 practical computer programming assignments—offering even more opportunities to use computers to solve design and analysis problems.
- NEW! Presents updated applications throughout, including industrial pumped fluid distribution systems; fluid power; HVAC; flow in materials processing systems; water and waste water systems; fluid storage and distribution systems; and open channel flow—preparing students to handle fluid mechanics problems in mechanical, chemical, civil, and environmental engineering.
- NEW! Spreadsheets and spreadsheet techniques for solving several practical fluid mechanics problems—helping students utilize standard spreadsheet tools they may already be familiar with.
- NEW! Contains new Supplemental Problems in several chapters—giving students and instructors new ways of applying fluid mechanics.
- Demonstrates key problem-solving procedures in step-by-step format, ranging from applying Bernoulli’s equation to computing adiabatic flow of gas through nozzles—guiding students through recognizing what is known and what needs to be found, choosing the right solution procedure, and then solving the problem, one step at a time, and helping students move smoothly from basic to advanced problem-solving, with tips and tricks for tackling many situations.
- Guides students through designing parts of a fluid flow system and then integrating each piece in a comprehensive system—illuminating how the specific techniques students are learning will come together in actual engineering practice.
Updated and refined to reflect the latest products, tools, and techniques:
- NEW! Even stronger focus on the design and analysis of pumped fluid flow systems, with a theory/applications approach—combines theory with modern applications, components, and systems, enabling instructors to structure a course that meets the requirements of students needing a strong base for further study, as well as students preparing to quickly enter industry.
- NEW! Expanded and updated coverage of hose, plastic pipe, and tubing; a wider variety of pumps and viscosity measurement devices; and computational fluid mechanics techniques—preparing students to work with today’s products and approaches.
- NEW! Includes 9″ x 16″ poster of the Moody diagram—making this highly-detailed, complex graph more usable, and helping students obtain more consistent results for problems involving the diagram.
- NEW! Improved presentation of graphical tools for selecting pipe sizes, with usage examples in later chapters and projects—making it easier for students to accurately select pipe sizes.
- NEW! Improved discussion of computational fluid graphics with attractive new graphics that are highly relevant to pipe flow—helping students understand and apply computational techniques more effectively.
- NEW! Updated, expanded, and refined coverage of the use of K-factors (resistance coefficients), based on the latest version of the Crane Technical Paper 410 (TP 410)—preparing students to utilize the most current values and techniques.
- NEW! Includes expanded coverage of the flow coefficient and its applications—helping students accurately evaluate relationships between flow rate and pressure drop across valves, and use flow coefficients for control.
- NEW! Improved, updated, and deeper coverage of pipeline system design principles, including greater consistency with TP 410 and examples using a specialty demo version of the professional PIPE-FLO® software—preparing students to apply the principles of fluid mechanics more effectively.
- NEW! Expands and integrates the use of metric units in several parts of the book, including metric-DN Schedule 40 and 80 steel pipes; adds new metric-only problems; and presents new appendix tables with metric sizes for steel, copper, and plastic tubing—preparing students to succeed in global engineering environments that rely primarily or entirely on metric measurements.
- NEW! Updated data available in many chapters and in this book’s uniquely detailed appendices—ensuring that students have access to the most accurate and detailed data for problem-solving and design of pumped fluid flow systems.
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| Subjects | careers, higher education, Vocational / Professional Studies, Engineering Technology, Fluid Mechanics in Technology, TEC009070 |