Schaum's Outline of Fluid Mechanics (Schaum's Outline Series) 1st Edition

This book practically saved my life. I had the misfortune of getting textbooks in these classes generally with poor examples and no homework questions answered. Finding myself in a bind for Shockwaves in Compressible Flow, I dust off my trusty Schaum's accepting the fact that it probably won't have such a complicated subject.I was wrong.In fact, the proofs give my textbook a run for their money, and the methods in the examples are the same but better documented. Plus I got 50 problems to practice, and I didn't have to hope I got it right! The answers were right there giving me instant feedback on my ability to do general problems similar to what will be on my exam.For the 20 bucks or whatever it costs, it is well worth it. I've already used this book for 3 classes, and have found it more useful than the near $500 I had to spend on the required texts.Find a prof that doesn't require homework from an expensive book, and pick this baby up. If you get in some technical bind that this book somehow can't help with, borrow a buddies text, then practice out of the Schaum's.

I am using this in my Fluid Mechanics class as it goes so I have not gotten through all of this but for the amount that I have gotten through, I would say that this is not a bad buy. When comparing this to my Fluid Mechanics textbook, it seems that this takes all of the important info from textbook and leaves out any unnecessary details and then compile all of the important info (the stuff you may need to reference in the future). However, I have noticed some things in my textbook that I believe should be in this Outline but it is not terribly necessary for it to be in there. I have no time really to look at the problems so I can't say anything about those parts.

My daughter is in Civil Engineering at University of Michigan. She was struggling with her classes and this is a smart girl. This book has been amazing in breaking things down in simpler easier to digest explanations with many working examples. It was just what she needed to get her confidence back and start getting her 4.0s again. Brilliantly written!

As described. Not as easy as the "for dummies" collection

Used this as a supplementary text to try and bring in an alternative perspective to the material for my Thermals & Fluids class. I didn't actually use it during the time I was taking the class but after I skimmed through the text and it had more in the way of content then my actual textbook for the course had. I would recommend this to people who either want it to help them when learning the material or for professionals who just need a casual reference text for when they are working.

I have 3 different books on Fluid Mechanics, and ALL of them use very different course progression, variable conventions, and/or equation phrasing. This makes it much more difficult than it needs to be to use the books together to supplement each other, which is kind of the whole point of Schaum's Outlines. Maybe it will work better for folks with a different set of textbooks than my list.

This a must for any serious student of fluid mechanics. The solved problems really help to get a real grasp of the subject matter, while enable the student to get ready on the fundamentals needed to tackle more profund challanges. I will recommend this book to anyone that seeks a complete understanding of how fluid behave under certain specified conditions.

I'm a huge fan of Schaum's -- the low rating is for formatting on the Kindle.None of the greek letters (density, torque, etc) display in the text, so it is impossible to read the text without already knowing the material.Also, the figures are displayed up to 5 pages away from the text to which they pertain -- the speed that you can change pages makes the figures unusable in the context of the text.Definitely not useful as a sole source of information -- possibly okay for a suppliment.

Let me start off by saying the actual content is nearly faultless. The problem solving section is particularly of interest in this book. If you ever find yourself in need of a comprehensive and coherent textbook on fluid mechanics, this is the book for you. However that is only if you are studying fluid mechanics at university.I am a medical student, and one of our topics is fluid dynamics. oOr a medical student who needs to build a good understanding of fluid mechanics for whatever reason, then there is a brilliant website which teaches you the very basic concepts of fluid statics and fluid dynamics needed for any life science student: http://cnx.org/content/m42185/latest/

Cumple su función de dar soporte a las asignaturas relacionadas con Fluidos. Muy correcto.

Very good text book on fluid mechanics. It's well written for first year engineering students. Contains hundreds of examples and solved problems.

It's useful for a beginner's look but you're much better of getting a more detailed textbook.