What is the Best Book for Fluid Mechanics from Beginning to Advanced Level?

[prashant singh]

which is better fluid mechanics book , frank white or munson from complete beginning to the advanced level.

 

[boneh3ad]

They're both pretty widely used. It really comes down to personal taste. Neither will go to "advanced" levels in any depth, though. They will give you a bit of a taste of advanced topics but things like turbulence and compressible flows and stability theory and other such things warrant their own more advanced texts.

 

[mechpeac]

They are both good. I think I prefer Munson, but I have used both.

 

[Andy Resnick]

which is better fluid mechanics book , frank white or munson from complete beginning to the advanced level.

My current favorite is the book by Pozrikidis:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199752079/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[Chestermiller]

My personal favorite is Transport Phenomena by Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot. This book also has sections on heat transfer and mass transfer.

 

[vanhees71]

Landau, Lifshtitz vol. VI is also a very good intro to hydrodynamics.

 

[OrangeDog]

Grangers book I think is the best for an undergraduate. It is an old book but does a phenomenal job explaining things both mathematically and practically. I used this book in my grad fluids class as a secondary reference and in undergrad as a primary reference. I think most advanced general fluids books are crap - you are way better off buying books on specific topics (such as boundary layer flows, turbulence, microfluidics, etc) than something like White, Kundu, or Panton (a disgrace to fluids books).