Essential Analytic Laminar Flow

This book introduces analytic solution methods for viscous flow problems, which is important in fluid mechanics.  The author, after many years of experience in teaching and research, has refined useful analytic methods to treat fluid mechanics problems. This book is written in concise and understandable terms and is beneficial to practicing scientists and engineers who would like to understand and solve laminar fluid mechanics problems. The author provides new materials and insights and presents examples that are succinct to illustrate the methodology.

Navier-Stokes equations.- Exact Solutions.- Nondimensionalization, Scaling and Approximations.- Boundary Layers.- Unsteady Flow.- Stokes Flow.- Slip Flow.- Darcy-Brinkman Flow.- Thermo-fluids.- Appendix.

C.Y. Wang, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Adjoint Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University, East Lansing.  He received his B.S. from Taiwan University and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Wang wrote a book on Essential Perturbation Methods and co-authored two other books. He published approximately 330 journal articles in fluid mechanics. He has also served as a technical editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews.