●Offers a strong visual approach with photos, illustrations, and videos included in the text, and examples to emphasize the practical application of fluid mechanics principles. ●Contains numerous video segments that illustrate many interesting and practical applications of real-world fluid phenomena. ●Contains approximately 60 short "The Wide World of Fluids" stories that reflect some important and novel ways that fluid mechanics affects our lives 目錄 1 Introduction 2 Fluid Statics 3 Fluid Kinematics 4 Elementary Fluid Dynamics—The Bernoulli Equation 5 Finite Control Volume Analysis 6 Differential Analysis of Fluid Flow 7 Dimensional Analysis, Similitude, and Modeling 8 Viscous Flow in Pipes 9 Flow over Immersed Bodies 10 Open-Channel Flow 11 Turbomachines APPENDIX A Computational Fluid Dynamics APPENDIX B Physical Properties of Fluids APPENDIX C Properties of the U.S. Standard Atmosphere APPENDIX D Compressible Flow Functions for an Ideal Gas with k=1.4 APPENDIX E Comprehensive Table of Conversion Factors