V.N. Constantinescu – författare

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of laminar viscous flow. It thus limits itself to the study flows at small or moderate Reynolds numbers, where the laminar flow is stable, but it also provides a basis for studies of all subsequent extensions, including stability and turbulence. Covering not only the classical topics (the Navier-Stokes equation, exact solutions, and the like), but also topics of great practical importance (lubrication, non-Newtonian properties, heat and mass transfer, and so forth) often left out of standard texts on fluid dynamics, the book will be of use to a broad range of engineers, physicists, and others interested in the flow of viscous fluids.

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline born of the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face profound issues of productivity and competitiveness that require engineering solutions, among others. The Mechanical Engineering Series is a series featuring graduate texts and research monographs intended to address the need for information in contemporary areas of mechanical engineering. The series is conceived as a comprehensive one that covers a broad range of concentrations important to mechanical engineering graduate education and research. We are fortunate to have a distinguished roster of consulting editors, each an expert in one of the areas of concentration. The names of the consulting editors are listed on the following page of this volume. The areas of concentration are applied mechanics, biomechanics, computational mechanics, dynamic systems and control, energetics, mechanics of materials, processing, thermal science, and tribology. Professor Winer, the consulting editor for tribology, and I are pleased to present this volume of the series: Laminar Viscous Flow, by Professor Constantinescu. The selection of this volume underscores again the interest of the Mechanical Engineering Series to provide our readers with topical monographs as well as graduate texts.