Principles of Fluid Mechanics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction, Overview and Basics

   • Jürgen Zierep, Karl Bühler

   Pages 1-5

3. Properties of Fluids

   • Jürgen Zierep, Karl Bühler

   Pages 7-33

4. Hydro- and Aerostatics

   • Jürgen Zierep, Karl Bühler

   Pages 35-50

5. Hydro- and Aerodynamics

   • Jürgen Zierep, Karl Bühler

   Pages 51-191

6. In-Depth Exercises

   • Jürgen Zierep, Karl Bühler

   Pages 193-228

7. Back Matter

   Pages 229-237

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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 11^th 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.

• Aerodynamics
• Aerostatics
• Angular momentum theorem
• Energy balance
• Hydrodynamics
• Hydrostatics
• Body vertebrae
• Frictional resistance
• Shear stress
• Turbulent flow
• Dissipation
• Viscous potential flow

• Karlsruhe, Germany

  Jürgen Zierep

• Hochschule Offenburg, Offenburg, Germany

  Karl Bühler

Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Dr. techn. E. h. Dr. h. c. Jürgen Zierep held the Chair of Fluid Mechanics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 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.

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