Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange

Abstract

This book treats fluids in this broad sense, including flows in packed beds and fluidized beds. Naturally, in so small a volume, we do not go deeply into the study of any particular type of flow; however, we do show how to make a start with each. We avoid supersonic flow and the complex subject of multiphase flow, where each of the phases must be treated separately. The approach here differs from most introductory books on fluids, which focus on the Newtonian fluid and treat it thoroughly, to the exclusion of all else. I feel that the student engineer or technologist preparing for the real world should be intro- duced to these other topics.