Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Hydraulics    3. Hydrodynamics    4. Nonlinear waves    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Water waves    8. Waves & Wave Mechanics    9. Fluid mechanics    10. Geophysics    11. Mathematics / Applied    12. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    13. Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics)   

Reviews (4)

Good book.
This book was the assigned reading material for my engineering technology course. Its primary purpose was to give us an `introduction' to fluid related concepts, and in that area I would say it was very successful. This books writing style is extremely easy to follow, and unlike some of my other textbooks was actually enjoyable to read. It provided step by step instructions on how to solve problems, and also offered more than enough problems for the students to solve themselves. The only issue I have with this book relates to the rather limited examples it provides. In its solutions it illustrates how to solve the simple problems, but negates to do the more complicated ones which sometimes left me clueless on how to proceed. This book is also rather expansive and does not go very deep into the subject.. If your looking for a good introduction book for your course, or some extra learning material this is a great choice. If you're a more advanced reader, I suggest you look elsewhere.

Don't adapt for your course
The book is very shallow and not worth considering for any engineering or any technical degree. it might be good for high school level pre-engineering classes, but difinetly not at college or university level.

Bob Mott knows how to teach.
This is a great text for technology based fluid mechanics.To elementary for an engineering student, but then it was meant for an engineering technology student.I find it easy to use.My students love it.Thereare few, if any, technology based fluid mechanics texts available of thiscaliber.I only wish it were less expensive. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Applied Sciences    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Engineering Fluid Mechanics    4. Fluid mechanics    5. Hydraulics    6. Mechanics - General    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Mechanical engineering    11. Mechanics of fluids    12. Science / Mechanics   

Reviews (5)

This book is all metric - worthless
We use english units in my state.This book is all metric.They could have at least had both metric and english in the book.I sent mine back, as it is worthless to me.

Handbook of Hydraulics
This book was a classic, but why does it have to be metric?I guess converting it gave the academics something to do.Here is a news flash for the publisher: Civil Engineers praticing in the US don't use the metric system.Even our state DOT has given up on converting.I wish that the 6th edition was still available.Its just about useless now.

Great reference
If you need a reference manual, this has everything.Although, most people need text books for problem solving, whether they be a student or a professional.This book some how managed to completely avoid sample problems.I returned it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Civil    2. Engineering - Hydraulic    3. Environmental Engineering & Technology    4. Hydraulic engineering    5. Hydraulics    6. Metric system    7. Reference    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Reference works    12. Sanitary & municipal engineering    13. Technology / Engineering / Civil   

Reviews (1)

How to Make Injection Molds
I do not recommend this book to a beginner, who've just entered this field as the contents are somewhat unorganized. I think that as a reader, an author focuses his book mainly for experienced mold designers. Read more

Subjects:  1. Hydraulics    2. Injection molding of plastics    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Mechanical Engineering & Materials   

Reviews (3)

what a good book but poor choice in typesetting
a book covering many interesting topics and i believe a student of turbulence will be very well-equiped in the basics of modern understandings of turbulence after reading this book. but what a poor page layout. the fonts are small and the book undoubtedly is bulkier because so much space is wasted on the wide margins! i think i had read somewhere that these margins would make the book a good study tools. readers can write on them. what nonsense! they could have just used a conventional layout, save plenty of pages and reading it would be better for my eyes. i can write notes and work out the equations, etc, on some notepad i have. i think it worths minusing two stars for the layout. you can say i judge this book by its font size.

A good book for graduate students
This text is well-written and presents a lot of advanced material in relatively short order. However, the mathematics involved are quite advanced and the book is certainly intended only for people with some background in fluids - it is far from an "introductory" text!

Excellent Book
This book is really great! The complex things in turbulence are explained in that way I've never seen it before. There are a lot of great figures that are explaining a lot of things - for example, vorticity dynamics is followed with great pictures. Main topic of this book is physical aspect of turbulence, and that's great.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Hydraulics    3. Mathematics    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Turbulence    6. Flow, turbulence, rheology    7. Mathematics / Applied    8. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    9. Mathematics | Applied Mathematics    10. Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics)   

Reviews (1)

Comprehensive Introduction to 1-D Compressible Fluid Flow
This is the second textbook by Oosthuizen that I've used and it provides a good and comprehensive introduction to 1-D compressible fluid flow. Oosthuizen develops all of the fundamental equations in a straight forward manner and there are a sufficient number of worked examples that are oriented towards applications in other fields of engineering, not just aerodynamics. Each flow regime is developed separately to facilitate the student's comprehension of the subject starting with isentropic flow, then developing normal, oblique shock theory, and expansion waves, followed by flows with: variable area, friction, and then heat addition before applying these concepts to more complex flow regimes. There is an introduction to 2-D flow, hypersonic flow, and numerical applications. Compressible flow tables for air are provided as appendices. Be careful using the software as it has been reported that there are some errors in it and some of the examples are incorrect: e.g. E 10.6 which incorrectly assumes dA is constant. This review applies to the paperback edition. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aeronautics & Astronautics    2. Compressibility    3. Engineering - Mechanical    4. Engineering Fluid Mechanics    5. Fluid dynamics    6. Hydraulics    7. Mechanics - General    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Engineering thermodynamics    12. Flow, turbulence, rheology    13. Technology / Aeronautics & Astronautics   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Engineering Fluid Mechanics    3. Fluid dynamics    4. Hydraulics    5. Material Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Flow, turbulence, rheology    10. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

Reviews (1)

MHD, turbulence, boundary layers...
Fluid mechanics is a vast field. It can be considered a branch of applied physics. Highly mathematical, as can be seen in the problems given in this book by Hughes. He takes you through the field, giving the salient equations used to describe various fluid phenomena.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Hydraulic    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Engineering Fluid Mechanics    4. Fluid dynamics    5. Hydraulics    6. Study Aids    7. Study Guides    8. Applications of Computing    9. Applied mathematics    10. Fluid mechanics    11. Science / Mechanics / Dynamics / Fluid Dynamics    12. Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics)    13. Study guides, home study & revision notes   

Reviews (1)

Excellent for mechanical engineering professionals
As an expert in pipelines design a recommend it very extensively because of the structure is is written and the wide range of the covered topics. The most comprehensive book in the field! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cavitation    2. Hydraulics    3. Hydrodynamics    4. Machinery    5. Pipeline Engineering    6. Pipelines    7. Pumping machinery    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Valves    11. Sanitary & municipal engineering    12. Technology / Machinery   

Reviews (2)

Stay away from this
I've taken a 3rd year undergraduate fluid mechanics course and we've used this as our textbook. It was a complete disaster. Let me start by saying this book pays absolutely no respect to its readers - it's filled not only with typos (and lots of them!) but also with very flimsy arguments. Now, whenever I do not understand an argument I usually think that I did not get it, or perhaps I do not understand the material enough, or that I simply have to fill in the gaps - but in this book, there are no gaps, the arguments are just lousy. Some steps even seem to be wrong, and I say that after debating them for a long while with my friends. I strongly recommend you eye this book with great suspicion.

A clean and fast presenation of fluid mechanics.
An ideal book for the applied mathematician and mathematical physicist. This little text is deceptive in scope, covering the constitutive equations of motion, vorticity, and up through problems in gas dynamics. The book is also quite appropriate for self study, even more beneficial if studied in conjunction with G.K. Batchelor's classic text "An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics" for additional physical insight. Overall Marsden and Chorin have developed a classic introductory text. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Applied Mathematics    2. Fluid Mechanics    3. General    4. Hydraulics    5. Physics    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    9. Mathematics-General    10. Science / Mathematical Physics    11. Science-Physics    12. Technology / Hydraulics   

Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Geometry - General    3. Hydraulics    4. Hydrodynamics    5. Mathematics    6. Physics    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Topology    9. Analytic geometry    10. Calculus & mathematical analysis    11. Fluid mechanics    12. Mathematics / General   

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Engineering - Hydraulic    3. Environmental Engineering & Technology    4. Hydraulics    5. Management    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Sewage Disposal And Treatment    8. Storm sewers    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Urban runoff    12. Hydraulic engineering    13. Management & management techniques    14. Sanitary & municipal engineering    15. Technology / Hydraulics   

Reviews (3)

Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics : Fundamental an
This volume is an extremely clear summary of basic theory and comparative techniques for computational resolution of fluid mechanics problems. Code examples are clear and extremely helpful to practitioners trying to produce useful models.

Very good book for CFD
This is more advanced book for CFD (comparing with the volume I). Morespecifice topics were talked about in this book.It is a very good bookfor beginner, also a good reference.

Excellent books for entering the C.F.D feild
The reader should be familer with the general techniques of Computaional Science. This book does an excellent review of thoes basic techniques which are basic for computational fluid dynamics. I just finished reading it andam Now starting on the second volume. I am doing a computer Simulation ofShip wakes and this book is I think nesessary reading before a researcherdives in to the mass of research papers published in this field. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Hydraulics    3. Science    4. Applications of Computing    5. Calculus & mathematical analysis    6. Differentialgleichung    7. Fluid mechanics    8. Fluidik    9. Science / Mechanics    10. Fluid dynamics    11. Mathematics    12. Data processing    13. Numerical analysis   

Reviews (1)

It damns the dam with precise and powerful arguments.
This is a collection of essays which document the many reasons the Three Gorges Dam should not be built, the lose of arable land, the dislocation of millions of people, the loss of 5,000 years of art and architecture, etc.Author Dai Qing, an outspoken opponent of the dam since the beginning, isto be highy commended for speaking out while others cower in silence. Toput it in Western terms, it is David taking on Goliath, times 10.Read more

Subjects:  1. Government - International    2. Hydraulics    3. Politics / Current Events    4. Real Estate - General    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Central government policies    8. China    9. Management of land & natural resources    10. Pollution & threats to the environment    11. Population & demography   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Hydraulics    3. Hydrodynamics    4. Mechanics - Dynamics - Fluid Dynamics    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Fluid mechanics    8. Physics | Mechanics    9. Science / Mechanics / Dynamics / Fluid Dynamics   

Reviews (1)

good for the experienced
hi all,Read more

Subjects:  1. Advanced    2. Analytic Mechanics (Mathematical Aspects)    3. Computer Science    4. Data processing    5. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    6. Fluid dynamics    7. Hydraulics    8. Mathematical Physics    9. Mathematics    10. Number Systems    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. Fluid mechanics    14. MSC (2000): 76M, 65 M    15. Mathematical theory of computation    16. Mathematics / Number Systems    17. Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics)    18. Strömungslehre    19. computational fluid dynamics    20. numerical analysis    21. numerical methods    22. numerische Mathematik    23. numerische Methoden    24. numerische Strömungslehre   

Reviews (1)

excellent
very happy with the book.it takes rather complex materials and ideas and presents it in a way easily understandable and accessible to anyone who can use a calculator.looking forward to the 2nd half of the book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Geology    2. Engineering - Civil    3. Engineering - Hydraulic    4. Environmental Engineering & Technology    5. Hydraulics    6. Hydrology    7. Management    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Sewage Disposal And Treatment    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Urban runoff    13. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades    14. Waste treatment & disposal   

Reviews (4)

Book on Hydrodynamic
This is one of the classic books written by Chandrasekhar. This is
Most affordable of the classics on hydrodynamic stability
This is one of the standard monographs on hydrodynamic instabilities, considered a classic.It was published by Oxford UP in 1961 and is kept in print (at a bargain price) by Dover.It is still very usable, easy toread, and an excellent introduction, although on some points it is out ofdate.For Rayleigh-Benard convection, a reader would do well to consultmore recent books like Drazin & Reid, Swinney & Gollub,Koschmieder, and Getling.However, nobody covers the linear theory betterthan Chandrasekhar.

A practical, beautiful masterpiece
I first read this book just to better understand a small point in a fluid dynamics paper I was reading, but quickly realized it is an encyclopaedic masterpiece, and found myself reading more and more.Chandasekhar'sexplanations are clear, easily readable, and complete, and should be amodel for other writers.Anyone working on fluids should own this. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    2. Hydraulics    3. Hydrodynamics    4. Hydromechanics    5. Magnetohydrodynamics    6. Mechanics - General    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Fluid mechanics    10. Science / Physics   

Reviews (1)

Good news for the gas engineer
This books cover all the aspect of designing a utility network analysis from basic to the implementation aspects. Besides that, the software included are very useful and it can be applied to any network. I still have to say that this is the wonderful book and i recommend to all of you!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Civil    2. Engineering - Hydraulic    3. Hydraulic Engineering (General)    4. Hydraulics    5. Hydrodynamics    6. Pipe    7. Pipelines    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Hydraulics & pneumatics    12. Mechanical engineering    13. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

Reviews (5)

Classic fluid mechanics text
As noted by other reviewers, this is a classic fluid mechanics reference text, but not suitable for detailed explanations or beginners.It also suffers from the usual fluid mechanics problem of notation, and the notation in this book is a little dated.However, once you get used to the "short article" layout (vs chapters) and the notation, you will treasure and use this book a long time.

Unique Classic
This book was written in a time when ideas established by men such as Kelvin and Rayleigh were still exciting and new, and it evolved over the decades to remain a classic reference. You'll find many interesting discussions of fundamental ideas in fluid dynamics that most modern books take for granted, as well as novel approaches to some classic problems. There is more emphasis on the set of "exactly-solvable" problems than more modern books, because of the arrival of the computer and the availability of the numerical solution. Finally, this is not quite a textbook but more of a collection of articles, so much so that the earlier articles often reference later ones in the book. It's a good place to learn about aspects of fluid dynamics, but it's not an introduction. It's often not an easy read for someone stil unfamiliar with the required mathematics or dynamical principles, but you do get a unique and valuable perspective.

Important reference -- can be very difficult to digest.
This is, of course, a classic text on fluid dynamics. Expect some work to get through it, though. It is very mathematical and not for the feint-hearted. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Engineering - General    3. General    4. Hydraulics    5. Hydrodynamics    6. Mathematics    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Applied mathematics    10. Fluid mechanics    11. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical