Focusing on the integration of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, this book draws from the author's extensive research in thermofluid sciences. It emphasizes the interdependence of these disciplines, highlighting that neither can be fully understood in isolation. Aimed at engineering and physics students, as well as industry professionals, the text serves as a comprehensive resource for graduate core courses and advanced elective topics. It addresses a gap in existing literature by providing a unified approach to these essential engineering principles.
Focusing on tensor analysis, this textbook provides a comprehensive understanding of complex physical phenomena through the lens of continuum mechanics and turbulence modeling. It explores the foundational principles that led to the General Theory of Relativity and spacetime geometry. Aimed at engineering and theoretical physics students, as well as professionals in CFD simulation, it emphasizes practical applications and includes examples that facilitate the transition from Cartesian to curvilinear coordinates. Prior knowledge of calculus is recommended for self-study.
Focusing on the intricate design and integration of gas turbine components, this comprehensive resource offers in-depth insights into aero-thermodynamics and performance. Unlike typical handbooks, it delves into proprietary design material, making it invaluable for practicing designers and young engineers. Additionally, it serves as an effective teaching tool for turbomachinery courses, equipping students with skills equivalent to several years of industry experience. The author's extensive expertise enhances the book's credibility and practical application in the field.
I Turbomachinery Flow Physics.- II Turbomachinery Losses, Efficiencies,
Blades.- III Turbomachinery Dynamic Performance.- IV Turbomachinery CFD-
Essentials.
The contents of this book covers the material required in the Fluid Mechanics Graduate Core Course (MEEN-621) and in Advanced Fluid Mechanics, a Ph. D-level elective course (MEEN-622), both of which I have been teaching at Texas A& M University for the past two decades. While there are numerous undergraduate fluid mechanics texts on the market for engineering students and instructors to choose from, there are only limited texts that comprehensively address the particular needs of graduate engineering fluid mechanics courses. To complement the lecture materials, the instructors more often recommend several texts, each of which treats special topics of fluid mechanics. This circumstance and the need to have a textbook that covers the materials needed in the above courses gave the impetus to provide the graduate engineering community with a coherent textbook that comprehensively addresses their needs for an advanced fluid mechanics text. Although this text book is primarily aimed at mechanical engineering students, it is equally suitable for aerospace engineering, civil engineering, other engineering disciplines, and especially those practicing professionals who perform CFD-simulation on a routine basis and would like to know more about the underlying physics of the commercial codes they use. Furthermore, it is suitable for self study, provided that the reader has a sufficient knowledge of calculus and differential equations. In the past, because of the lack of advanced computational capability, the subject of fluid mechanics was artificially subdivided into inviscid, viscous (laminar, turbulent), incompressible, compressible, subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows.
