Download or read book Principles of Fluid Mechanics written by Wen-Hsiung Li and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Dimensional analysis -- Fluid statics -- Kinematics of fluids -- Dynamics of frictionless incompressible flow -- Irrotational flow -- Streamlines and stream functions -- Vorticity -- The momentum theorem -- Flow with gravity -- Flow with viscous fluids -- Two-dimensional laminar boundary layers -- Turbulent flow -- Thermodynamics and fluid flows -- One-dimensional steady compressible flow -- Shock waves and expansion fans -- Similarity laws in compressible flows -- Appendix : Mechanical properties of some fluids.