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The graduate text book "The Phenomena of Fluid Motions" by
Robert
S. Brodkey, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Ohio
State is a republication by Brodkey Publishing of the unabridged and corrected
Dover (1995) edition. This in turn was a republication of the work first
published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Mass., 1967, 268
illustrations (including 27 photographs), Preface, Author and subject indexes,
Bibliography, Problems, xiv + 737 pp. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4, Paperbound. The list
price of the Brodkey Publishing edition is $25.00 and can be obtained from
Alibris, Barnes & Nobel, and Amazon.com and other book dealers.
The following is taken from the back cover of there published edition:
"I know of no other book in which the subjects of non-Newtonian
and multiphase flow are treated in as organized, clear and complete fashion
as they are here" - Lawrence Talbot, Physics Today
The book is a fully corrected paperback edition that is generally available
from all booksellers. Quantity purchases by bookstores of 25 or more copies
can be made at wholesale from Lightning Source Inc. (inquiry@lightningsource.com).
Published by Brodkey Publishing
246 North Delta Drive
Columbus, OH 43214, USA
E-mail: brodkey@columbus.rr.com
Tel: 614-262-3967 (mornings)
Tel: 614-292-2609 (afternoons).
For further information you can contact
Robert S. Brodkey at
(614) 292-2609; brodkey.1@osu.edu
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Notable for its thoroughness and clarity,
this well-written graduate-level text presents the theoretical background
of fluid flow from the standpoint of the transport phenomena, relating momentum
transport to other transport mechanisms. The book is divided into three
main sections: Part I - A Theoretical Background to Fluid Flow; Part II-
Applications of the Basic Flow Equations; Part III - Extension of the Basic
Flow Equations.
When this book was first written, there
was no single text, suitable for graduate students, dealing with fluid motion.
It remained for Professor Brodkey (Emeritus, Chemical Engineering, Ohio
State University) to tie together the disparate threads of the topic in
a clear, well-organized exposition. To make the book as accessible as possible
to first-year graduate students, the author introduces the simplifying method
of vector notation, and vector and tensor notation are developed as an integral
part of the first few chapters.
Part I provides a theoretical background
to fluid flow, as well as introducing the equations of change and the various
flux vectors of transport theory, and culminates in the derivation of the
Navier-Stokes equations. Part II focuses on standard applications of the
flow equations: inviscid flows, exact and boundary-layer solutions of the
laminar-flow equations, integral methods, dimensional analysis and one-dimensional
compressible flow. Part III, comprising the major portion of the book, covers
phenomenological and statistical theories of turbulence, non-Newtonian phenomena
and multiphase flow.
Although it is designed for chemical
engineering students, this book covers a wide range of topics not ordinarily
found in fluid mechanics textbooks, making it an invaluable source book
for any engineer concerned with real-life fluid flow problems. The text
includes carefully selected problems throughout to strengthen the reader's
grasp of the material,and an exhaustive bibliography suggests further reading.
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