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Fluid Mechanics in its ninth edition retains the informal and student-oriented writing style with an enhanced flavour of interactive lecture. Fluid Mechanics as a subject is as an important branch of engineering mechanics. The essence of the subject is a judicious compromise between theory and experiment. This textbook not only makes a great deal of theoretical treatment available, but also provides experimental results as a natural and easy complement to the theory. The principles considered in the book are fundamental and have been well established.\nKey updates have been made throughout the ninth edition, including:\n\n1. Enhanced focus on readability to help students grasp and relate topics throughout\n\n2. Updated examples and data to bridge the gap between conceptual contents and applications\n\n3. Student-informed data which helped determine contents needing to be revised in order to enhance student comprehension and clarity, particularly for Chapters 2 to 7 where the backbone of fluid mechanics is laid out\n\n4. Updated art and photos that either reflect the changes in devices in recent years or enhance the quality of the illustration\n\n5. 1681 problem exercises sorted according to topic
Frank M. White was a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He is a native of Augusta, Georgia, received a B.M.E. degree in 1954 and then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for an S.M. degree in 1956; returned to Georgia Tech to earn a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering in 1959. He began teaching aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech in 1957 and moved to the University of Rhode Island in 1964. He retired in January 1998. His research interests have mainly been in viscous flow and convection heat transfer. Known primarily as a teacher and writer, he received the ASEE Westinghouse Teaching Excellence Award in addition to seven University of Rhode Island teaching awards. He is a Fellow of the ASME and for 12 years served as editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering. Henry Xue is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State Polytechnic University. He received his B.S. degree from Jiangsu University in China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in Japan. Prior to joining California State Polytechnic University in 2000, he was on the mechanical engineering faculty of National University of Singapore.
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