Computational fluid mechanics with ANSYS Fluent and COMSOL Multiphysics.Microfluidics and electrokinetic flow effects, including electroosmosis, electrophoresis, streaming potentials, and electroosmotic switching.Non-Newtonian fluids, including inelastic and viscoelastic fluids.Bubble motion, two-phase flow, and fluidization.Turbulent flows, showing how the k- method extends conventional mixing-length theory.Nearly unidirectional flows, from boundary layers to lubrication, calendering, and thin-film applications.Laplace's equation irrotational and porous-media flows.
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. Wilkes starts with a macroscopic approach, providing a solid foundation for sizing pumps and operating laboratory and field scale equipment. Throughout, he presents more than 300 problems of incrementally greater difficulty, helping students build mastery through realistic practice. 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.īuilding 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, fluidisation, microfluidics, electro-kinetic flow effects, and computational fluid dynamics.