Recommendations for fluid mechanics textbook

[Predator]

Hi, I'm an undergrad in biomedical engineering...a required class I'm taking right now is fluid mechanics...this is the textbook we use:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470262842/?tag=pfamazon01-20

I'll be frank...I think it sucks...too vague, expects you to fill in a lot between the lines. I need some kind of supplemental book to go with it that will explain concepts better/provide better problems. Does anyone have any recommendations? Anyone like the Schaum's outline for fluid mechanics?

Thanks again!

 

[boneh3ad]

Really? That is actually a pretty good book, and is nearly ubiquitous when it comes to basic fluid mechanics.

 

[Cyrus]

I used that book, its pretty darn good too. Get Anderson's book on Aerodynamics, I think they go well together.

 

[Predator]

Really? That is actually a pretty good book, and is nearly ubiquitous when it comes to basic fluid mechanics.

Ok for example, the section I'm doing right now is 2.8...(6th edition). I feel like it's pretty vague compared to the problems at the back (I suppose my main complaint is that I wish they had more variety of example problems worked out in the sections)

 

[boneh3ad]

Well It is only like a 3 page section. There are only so many examples they can give without repeating themselves, especially since that first example covers most of the section (I only have the fifth edition though, so hopefully nothing has changed). What exactly are you having problems with?

 

[Predator]

Well It is only like a 3 page section. There are only so many examples they can give without repeating themselves, especially since that first example covers most of the section (I only have the fifth edition though, so hopefully nothing has changed). What exactly are you having problems with?

problem 2.61 "a homogenous, 4-ft-wide, 8-ft-long rectangular gate weighting 800lb..." also has a diagram

 

[Studiot]

Hi, I'm an undergrad in biomedical engineering

I think this may be difficult as most texts have been written with other disciplines in mind.

You might look at books with hydraulics, machine hydraulics, or fluid logic in their titles or perhaps look on the chemical engineering shelves in the library.

There was a classic by

Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot entitled

'Transport Phenomenon'

that might be of interest.