Fluid Mechanics / Mechanical Engineering FLUID MECHANICS PIJUSH K. KUNDU IRA M. COHEN University of Pennsylvania fluid mechanics is the science that studies the motions and forces acting on fluids such as gases and liquids. These motions are ubiquitous in the world around us, ranging in scale from the move- ments of single- atmosphere. Of the fluid. This is the m in fluid mechanics widespread applications to technology and geophysics. anisms such as paramecia to large- KEY FEATURES 0 New and generalized treatment of similar laminar boundary layers. 0 Generalized treatment of streamfunctions for three-dimensional flows. Generalized treatment of vector field derivatives. Expanded coverage of gas dynamics. New introduction to computational fluid dynamics. New generalized treatment of boundary conditions in fluid mechanics. Expanded treatment of viscous flows with more examples ACADEMIC PRESS A Harcourt Science and Technology Company Printed in the United States of America 90897 9 780121 782511 6 08628 82514 ISBN O-LZ-L7825L-q . Fluid Mechanics / Mechanical Engineering FLUID MECHANICS PIJUSH K. KUNDU IRA M. COHEN University of Pennsylvania fluid mechanics is the science that. coverage of gas dynamics. New introduction to computational fluid dynamics. New generalized treatment of boundary conditions in fluid mechanics. Expanded treatment of viscous flows with more. in scale from the move- ments of single- atmosphere. Of the fluid. This is the m in fluid mechanics widespread applications to technology and geophysics. anisms such as paramecia