Introduction
Strategies in the study of fluid physics
Units and mathematical conventions
Fluids and Porous Media as Continua
Mathematical and physical points
Representative elementary volume
Mechanical Properties of Fluids and Porous Media
Body and surface forces
Ideal versus real fluids
Fluid rheology
Compressibility
Surface tension
Thermodynamic Properties of Fluids
Specific heat
Heat conduction
Fluid phases
Equations of state
Thermodynamic state and the first law of thermodynamics
Isobaric and isothermal processes
Adiabatic processes
Compressibility and thermal expansion
Dimensional Analysis and Similitude
Dimensional homogeneity
Dimensional quantities
Buckingham pi theorem
Geometrical similitude
Dynamical similitude
Fluid Statics and Buoyancy
Static pressure
Equation of fluid statics
Hypsometric equations
Buoyancy
Fluid Kinematics
Qualitative descriptions of motion
Substantive derivative
Conservation of Mass
Continuity in Cartesian coordinates
Continuity of solutes
Continuity in large control volumes
Conservation of Energy
Energy equation
Hubbert's potential
Inviscid Flows
Euler's equations
Bernoulli's equation
Vorticity and Fluid Strain
Flow with rotation
Vorticity
Fluid strain
Viscous Flows
Viscous forces
Newtonian fluids
Non-Newtonian fluids
Turbulent Flows
Onset of turbulence
Time-averaged velocities and pressures
Reynolds stresses
Time-averaged continuity and Navier-Stokes equations
Turbulent Boundary-Layer Shear Flows
Turbulent boundary-layer development
Prandtl's mixing-length hypothesis
Mixing length and eddy viscosity
Logarithmic velocity law
Buoyancy Driven Flows