Principles of Fluid Mechanics

This mature textbook brings the fundamentals of fluid mechanics in a concise and mathematically understandable presentation. In the current edition, a section on dissipation and viscous potential flows has been added. Exercises with solutions help to apply the material correctly and promote understanding.

This book is a translation of the original German 11th edition Grundzüge der Strömungslehre by Jürgen Zierep & Karl Bühler, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2018. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

The Contents

Introduction - Hydro-aerostatics - Hydro-aerodynamics - Streamline theory - Frictionless flows - Plane spatial flows - Flows with friction

The Target groups

Students of mechanical engineering, process engineering and chemical engineering at technical universities and colleges.

The Authors

Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Dr. techn. E. h. Dr. h. c. Jürgen Zierep held the chair of fluid mechanics at the Technical University in Karlsruhe and is honorary professor at BUAA (Beijing University for Aeronautics and Astronautics). 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Karl Bühler teaches and conducts research at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in the Faculty of Mechanical and Process Engineering.