Fluid mechanics for chemical engineers /
Noel de Nevers
- 3rd ed
- Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2005
- xxiii, 632 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
- McGraw-Hill chemical engineering series .
- McGraw-Hill chemical engineering series .
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Introduction -- Part I: Preliminaries -- 2. Fluid statics -- 3. The balance equation and the mass balance -- 4. The first law of thermodynamics -- Part II: Flows of fluids that are one-dimensional, or that can be treated as if they were -- 5. Bernoulli's equation -- 6. Fluid friction in steady, one-dimensional flow -- 7. The momentum balance -- 8. One-dimensional, high-velocity gas flow -- Part III: Some other topics that can be viewed by the methods of one-dimensional fluid mechanics -- 9. Models, dimensional analysis, and dimensionless numbers -- 10. Pumps, compressors, and turbines -- 11. Flow through porous media -- 12. Gas-liquid flow -- 13. Non-Newtonian fluid flow in circular pipes -- 14. Surface forces -- Part IV: Two and three-dimensional fluid mechanics -- 15. Two- and three-dimenional fluid mechanics -- 16. Potential flow -- 17. The boundary layer -- 18. Turbulence -- 19. Mixing -- 20. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) -- Appendixes: -- A. Tables, charts of fluid properties, pipe dimensions and flows, and high-velocity gas flows -- B. Derivations and proofs -- C. Equations for two- and three-dimensional fluid mechanics -- D. Answers to selected problems