Continuum Mechanics: Foundations and Applications of Mechanics, Volume 2(2 Volumes)

Author: Chandrashekhar S. Jog, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

This book discusses the subject of fluid mechanics in detail, and provides an in-depth treatment of the governing equations and engineering-related applications. This volume starts by presenting a detailed summary of the governing equations including kinematics and balance laws. In presenting this summary, particular emphasis is placed on relatively recent topics such as restrictions imposed by the second law of thermodynamics, material frame-indifference, etc. It then shows how the equations for a wide range of important topics such as idea fluid flow, surface waves, laminar incompressible and compressible flows, low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, etc. can be derived by making suitable approximation to the most general form of the governing equations presented at the outset. The theory in each chapter is illustrated by considering a number of examples and engineering-related applications. A number of advanced topics such as analytical solutions to steady and transient flows of incompressible fluids, and to the acoustic wave equation are covered in this book.

ISBN 978-1-107-09129-0 | First published in 2015 Co-publisher: Cambridge University Press