Dr John Douglas, formerly of South Bank University, London.

Dr Janusz Gasiorek, formerly of South Bank University, London where he led the Fluid Mechanics group in Mechanical Engineering, with specialist research interest in rotodynamic machinery and fan engineering.

Professor John Swaffield

, Emeritus Professor, Heriot–Watt University, has taught fluid mechanics for over 30 years with specialist research in pressure transients, free surface unsteady flows and water conservation.

Dr Lynne Jack, Heriot-Watt University, Reader in energy systems and associated environmental impacts, with research interests in unsteady flow modelling and the implications for the built environment of climate change.

Preface to the Sixth Edition
Previous Edition Prefaces
Acknowledgements
List of Computer Programs
List of Symbols

Part I Elements of Fluid Mechanics
Chapter 1 Fluids and their Properties
Chapter 2 Pressure and Head
Chapter 3 Static Forces on Surfaces. Buoyancy

Part II Concepts of Fluid Flow
Chapter 4 Motion of Fluid Particles and Streams
Chapter 5 The Momentum Equation and its Applications
Chapter 6 The Energy Equation and its Applications
Chapter 7 Two-dimensional Ideal Flow

Part III Dimensional Analysis and Similarity
Chapter 8 Dimensional Analysis
Chapter 9 Similarity

Part IV Behaviour of Real Fluids
Chapter 10 Laminar and Turbulent Flows in Bounded Systems
Chapter 11 Boundary Layer
Chapter 12 Incompressible Flow around a Body
Chapter 13 Compressible flow around a Body

Part V Steady Flow in Pipes, Ducts and Open Channels
Chapter 14 Steady Incompressible Flow in Pipe and Duct Systems
Chapter 15 Uniform Flow in Open Channels
Chapter 16 Non-uniform Flow in Open Channels
Chapter 17 Compressible Flow in Pipes

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