Fluid Mechanics Problems and Solutions [Hardcover]

This collection of over 200 detailed worked exercises adds to and complements the textbook Fluid Mechanics by the same author, and, at the same time, illustrates the teaching material via examples. The exercises revolve around applying the fundamental concepts of Fluid Mechanics to obtain solutions to diverse concrete problems, and, in so doing, the students' skill in the mathematical modelling of practical problems is developed. In addition, 30 challenging questions WITHOUT detailed solutions have been included. While lecturers will find these questions suitable for examinations and tests, students themselves can use them to check their understanding of the subject.This collection of exercises is meant as a companion volume to the textbook Fluid Mechanics. It is the translation of the second edition of Aufgaben zur Stromungslehre. The book contains about 200 problems worked out in detail. In selecting the exercises I have been guided by didactical consider? ations and included problems that demonstrate the application of the gen? eral principles of continuum mechanics to more or less classical problems in fluid mechanics. Most of these problems are found in other textbooks or collections. On the other hand, there is a good number of exercises designed to develop and further the ability to model and solve practical problems. Besides these worked examples, thirty examination problems with answers only are included. In addition there are also exercises for Cartesian tensor calculus. The book has been translated by Professor M. T. Schobeiri, Texas A & M University. I thank him and also Dorothee Sommer and Peter Pelz for their help with this book.1 The Concept of Continuum and Kinematics.- 1.2 Kinematics.- Problem 1.2-1 Calculation of material coordinates for given pathlines.- Problem 1.2-2 Velocity and acceleration in material and spatial coordinates with given pathlines.- Problem 1.2-3 Material description of a potential vortex flow.- Problem 1.2-4 Material dels'