Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

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Summary: This is a really great textbook for Fluid Mechanics
Review: I am a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA. We use this textbook in my fluid mechanics class. I have not seen in all my years at Tech such a thorough textbook. It really is a great book for learning fluids.

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Summary: This is a really great textbook for Fluid Mechanics
Review: I am a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA. We use this textbook in my fluid mechanics class. I have not seen in all my years at Tech such a thorough textbook. It really is a great book for learning fluids.

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Summary: Book serves its intended purpose
Review: I felt that the book was very helpful in taking my Fluid Mechanics course. We covered all of the book but the last chapter. I had a very poor teacher when I took the class, so the book was pretty much my only tool for learning the material. I thought that the end-of-chapter example problems were helpful and covered a wide range of topics presented in the book. The sample problems were also very helpful to me in doing the example problems that I was assigned. I felt that the book was about as clear as it could be for the diffculty of material presented.

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Summary: Dont rely only on this book
Review: If you are cursed with a poor professor and are forced to use the book to teach yourself the material, you will be sorely dissapointed. First of all, the book is extremely wordy and very complicated to understand. You are given a ton of equations when they talk about a topic but you almost always find no use for the majority of them. I find the later chaptersespecially to be all math oriented and I found fewer and fewer real world problems to help study for the exams which had real world questions. In general, I was very dissapointed with the book.

The study guide that accompanes the book is actually fairly decent and succint if not too short and they sometimes dont show important equations

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Summary: One Excellent Book
Review: If you are new to the area of Fluid Mechanics and need a text to learn the fundamentals, this book is the perfect choice. The text gradually builds on previous material and you almost never get lost reading it. Most equations are derived step by step with detailed explanations of the assumptions made and the mathematical modifications done. The organization of the book is suitable such that one can cover both theoretical and practical aspects of fluids in seperate chapters. I should also mention the wise selection of the example problems. They really help you understand what is going on. Finally, I believe this is an excellent book for any engineer working in the area of fluid mechanics.

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Summary: Pretty good book for people who really want to learn theory
Review: In my course of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Brasília (UnB) I've been studying this subject through McDonald and Fox's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and I really think that Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics is the best choice for people who really want to learn the theory . Besides that Mcdonald and Fox's is better in terms of exercises

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Summary: Pretty good book for people who really want to learn theory
Review: In my course of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Brasília (UnB) I've been studying this subject through McDonald and Fox's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and I really think that Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics is the best choice for people who really want to learn the theory . Besides that Mcdonald and Fox's is better in terms of exercises

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Summary: Say CD..eeeeee....
Review: The best thing about this book is the in-depth soultions to extra problems found only in the CD. So be sure to ask for the CD that accompanies the book; on top of that you get a solid fluid mechanics book that will support you through your fluid classes. A foundational understanding in fluids will also help in classes like Heat Transfer where most of the information is building on information learned in fluids. Good book, good examples, I like a lot of one of the author's (Okiishi) stuff.

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Summary: Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
Review: This book has lots of precious examples and diagrams covering from basic to profound theories. Also, its organized structure help to understand concepts easily. It could be the best for graduate students who want to study fluid mechanics.

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Summary: Excellent for the student of Mechanical Engineering
Review: This book is excellent for the engineering student. I recommend it for the beginning student of fluid mechanics or for the advanced student wishing to refresh his/her knowledge of fluid mechanics. The collaborative effort by the authors produce a beautifully explained text. The material is clear and concise and the additional software included with the book is of great use for illustrating important concepts.