Simple Fluid Mechanics

A fluid has no shape of its own. Everything else in the subject — why pressure acts in every direction, why a wing lifts, why a pipe resists flow — follows from that one fact, and this book builds the subject in that order.

It covers statics, kinematics and the conservation laws, with a full worked solution to every problem and figures that each answer one question. Every result is either proved or its source is named, and where a method reaches its limit the book says so rather than stepping over it. Transfer problems set in unfamiliar situations check that the ideas have really been learned.

Written for engineering students meeting fluids for the first time.