The contents of this book covers the material required in the Fluid Mechanics Graduate Core Course (MEEN-621) and in Advanced Fluid Mechanics, a Ph. D-level elective course (MEEN-622), both of which I have been teaching at Texas A&M University for the past two decades. While there are numerous undergraduate fluid mechanics texts on the market for engineering students and instructors to choose from, there are only limited texts that comprehensively address the particular needs of graduate engineering fluid mechanics courses. To complement the lecture materials, the instructors more often...

Rigorously updated and enhanced for this second edition, with fresh chapters on laminar turbulent transition, turbulence and boundary layer, this textbook is a solid source of information for designing state-of-the art turbomachinery components and systems.