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TITLE: Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers: with Microfluidics, CFD, and COMSOL
       Multiphysics 5, 3rd edition (2018)
AUTHOR: James O. Wilkes
ISBN-13: 9780134712826
BOOK SPECS: https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/PGM1631916.html
FILE SPECS: true PDF, logical page numbers as in the print version, bookmarks,
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DESCRIPTION: James O. Wilkes has updated his expert hands-on fluid mechanics tutorial with a complete introduction to the popular COMSOL Multiphysics 5.2 software package, and ten new COMSOL 5.2 examples.

Building on the text that earned Choice Magazine’s prestigious Outstanding Academic Titles award, Wilkes offers masterful coverage of key fluid mechanics topics including computing turbulent flows, bubble motion, two-phase flow, fluidization, microfluidics, electro-kinetic flow effects, and computational fluid dynamics. Throughout, he presents more than 300 problems of incrementally greater difficulty, helping students build mastery through realistic practice.

Wilkes starts with a macroscopic approach, providing a solid foundation for sizing pumps and operating laboratory and field scale equipment. The first four chapters derive equations needed to size chemical plant equipment, including pipes in packed beds, pumping installation, fluid flow measurement, filtration, and cyclone separation. Next, he moves to a microscopic approach, introducing key principles for modeling more advanced systems and solving industry or graduate-level problems. These chapters start with a simple derivation of the Navier-Stokes equation (NSE), and then introduce assumptions for various flow geometries, helping students reduce equations for easy solution -- analytically, or numerically with COMSOL. Updated COMSOL examples include boundary layer flow, non-Newtonian flow, jet flow, lathe flow, lubrication, momentum diffusion, flow through an orifice plate parallel plate flow, turbulent flow, and more.

BRIEF CONTENTS:
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PART I: Macroscopic Fluid Mechanics
 1: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
 2: Mass, Energy, and Momentum Balances
 3: Fluid Friction in Pipes
 4: Flow in Chemical Engineering Equipment
PART II: Microscopic Fluid Mechanics
 5: Differential Equations of Fluid Mechanics
 6: Solution Of Viscous-Flow Problems
 7: Laplace’s Equation, Irrotational and Porous-Media Flows
 8: Boundary-Layer and Other Nearly Unidirectional Flows
 9: Turbulent Flow
 10: Bubble Motion, Two-Phase Flow, and Fluidization
 11: Non-Newtonian Fluids
 12: Microfluidics and Electrokinetic Flow Effects
 13: An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and ANSYS Fluent
 14: COMSOL Multiphysics for Solving Fluid Mechanics Problems
appendixes
index