Intro
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Thermodynamics and Evolution
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Local Equilibrium
1.3 Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
1.4 Convection and Diffusion
1.5 Viscosity
1.6 Thermal Conductivity
1.7 Molecular Diffusivity
1.8 Molecular Diffusion as an Example of Random Walk
1.9 Examples of Diffusive Processes
1.10 Problems
2 Statics of Fluids
2.1 Hydrostatic Equilibrium
2.2 Manometers
2.3 Surface Tension
2.4 The Young-Laplace Equation
2.5 Contact Angle

2.6 Problems
3 General Features of Fluid Mechanics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Reynolds Number
3.3 Boundary Layer and Viscous Resistance
3.4 Boundary Conditions
3.5 Turbulence
3.6 Problems
4 Macroscopic Balances
4.1 Mass Balance and Continuity Equation
4.2 Mechanical Energy Balance and Bernoulli's Equation
4.3 Momentum Balance
4.4 Recapitulation of the Bernoulli Equation
4.5 Pressure Drops in Pipe Flow
4.6 Localized Pressure Drops
4.7 Flow Around a Submerged Object
4.8 Problems
5 Laminar Flow Fields

5.1 Fully Developed Flow of a Newtonian Fluid in a Pipe
5.2 Fluid Rheology
5.3 Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Circular Pipes
5.4 Flow in Porous Media
5.5 Quasi-Steady Flow
5.6 Capillary Flow
5.7 Problems
6 The Governing Equations of a Simple Fluid
6.1 General Microscopic Balance Equation
6.2 Mass Balance: The Continuity Equation
6.3 Momentum Balance: Cauchy's Equation
6.4 Angular Momentum Balance
6.5 The Constitutive Equation for Newtonian Fluids
6.6 Energy Balance
6.7 Governing Equations for Incompressible Newtonian Fluids
6.8 The Entropy Equation

7 Laminar Unidirectional Flows
7.1 Flow in Pipes and Channels
7.2 Parallel Plates Viscometer
7.3 Radial Flux Between Two Parallel Disks
7.4 Fluid Flow Due to the Rapid Movement of a Wall
7.5 Lubrication Approximation
7.6 Drainage of a Liquid Film from a Vertical Plate
7.7 Integral Methods
7.8 Problems
8 Laminar Boundary Layer
8.1 Scaling of the Problem
8.2 Blasius Self-similar Solution
8.3 Flow Separation
8.4 von Karman-Pohlhausen Method
8.5 Problems
9 Heat Conduction
9.1 Introduction to Heat Transport
9.2 Unidirectional Heat Conduction

9.3 The Composite Solid
9.4 Quasi-Steady State Approximation
9.5 Problems
10 Conduction with Heat Sources
10.1 Uniform Heat Generation
10.2 Heat Conduction with Chemical Reaction
10.3 Regular Asymptotic Expansion for Small Da
10.4 Singular Asymptotic Expansion for Large Da
10.5 Problems
11 Macroscopic Energy Balance
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Heat Transfer Coefficient
11.3 Heat Exchangers
11.4 Heat Exchanging Fins
11.5 Problems
12 Time-Dependent Heat Conduction
12.1 Heat Balance Equation
12.2 Heat Conduction in a Semi-infinite Slab