This open access book allows the reader to grasp the main bulk of fluid flow problems at a brisk pace. Starting with the basic concepts of conservation laws developed using continuum mechanics, the incompressibility of a fluid is explained and modeled, leading to the famous Navier-Stokes equation that governs the dynamics of fluids. Some exact solutions for transient and steady-state cases in Cartesian and axisymmetric coordinates are proposed. A particular set of examples is associated with creeping or Stokes flows, where viscosity is the dominant physical phenomenon. Irrotational flows are treated by introducing complex variables. The use of the conformal mapping and the Joukowski transformation allows the treatment of the flow around an airfoil. The boundary layer theory corrects the earlier approach with the Prandtl equations, their solution for the case of a flat plate, and the von Karman integral equation. The instability of fluid flows is studied for parallelflows using the Orr-Sommerfeld equation. The stability of a circular Couette flow is also described. The book ends with the modeling of turbulence by the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and large-eddy simulations. Each chapter includes useful practice problems and their solutions.

The book is useful for engineers, physicists, and scientists interested in the fascinating field of fluid mechanics.

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Michel O. Deville is an Emeritus Professor of the Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne). He was the director of the Computational Engineering Laboratory dedicated mainly to Computational Fluid Dynamics. He has been consultant for ONERA, the French aerospace lab, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Computers and Fluids. He taught Fluid Mechanics courses over two decades to Mechanical Engineering and Physics students.

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