Fluid Mechanics: Incompressible Viscous Flow

Fluid Mechanics: Incompressible Viscous Flow provides a rigorous guide to predicting primarily aerodynamic and hydrodynamic drag on vehicles, including automobiles, trains, submarines, ships, and aircraft. This book serves as the third volume in this comprehensive five-part series on fluid mechanics.Opening with an overview of the intellectual history and fundamental concepts of viscous flow, this volume guides readers through governing partial differential equations. It covers flows with negligible convective acceleration—such as Couette, pipe, unsteady, and creeping flows—as well as complex laminar flows, including boundary and free shear layers. Finally, the text explores laminar-turbulent transition, full turbulence, flow separation, natural convection, and geophysical flows. Every chapter is supported by diverse real-world applications spanning vehicular drag, piping systems, biological propulsion, and weather forecasting.This volume is designed as a core textbook for introductory graduate and advanced undergraduate students in aerospace, mechanical, and civil engineering. Readers should possess a basic familiarity with core fluid dynamic concepts from the first volume, Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals.