Useful Books (Partial List)
Fluid Mechanics Elementary/Undergraduate:
1. R. W. Fox, P. J. Pritchard and A. T. McDonald, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Wiley India. 2. V. Gupta, S. K. Gupta, Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, New Age International. 3. F. M. White, Fluid Mechanics, Tata McGraw Hill. 4. M. C. Potter, D. C. Wiggert, Fluid Mechanics, Cengage Learning (Indian Edition). 5. V. L. Streeter, E. B. Wylie and K. W. Bedford, Fluid Mechanics, Tata McGraw Hill. 6. B. R. Munson, D. F. Young, T. H. Okiishi and W. W. Huebsch, Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, Wiley India. 7. Y. A. Cengel, J. M. Cimbala, Fluid Mechanics: Applications, Tata McGraw Hill. 8. W. P. Graebel, Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Taylor and Francis. (Slightly advanced than the standard Undergraduate books.) 9. J. A. Fay, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Prentice Hall India Learning. (More mathematical.) 10. I. H. Shames, Mechanics of Fluids, McGraw Hill. (Slightly advanced than the standard Undergraduate books.) Fundamentals and
Intermediate:
1. S. W. Yuan, Foundations of Fluid Mechanics, Prentice-Hall.
2. K. Muralidhar, G. Biswas, Advanced Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Narosa. 3. P. Kundu, I. Cohen, Fluid Mechanics, Elsevier (Indian Edition). 4. D. Pnueli, C. Gut nger, Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge (Indian Edition). 5. I. G. Currie, Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids, CRC Press. 6. F. Durst, Fluid Mechanics: An Introduction to the Theory of Fluid Flows, Springer.
Advanced:
1. F. M. White, Viscous Fluid Flow, Tata McGraw Hill. 2. G. K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge (Indian Edition). 3. R. L. Panton, Incompressible Flow, Wiley India. 4. W. P. Graebel, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Elsevier (Indian Edition).
Computational Fluid Dynamics Introductory:
1. J. D. Anderson, Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications, McGraw Hill. Finite Dierence Method. Some numerical analysis.) 2. K. Muralidhar and T. Sundararajan, Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer, Second Edition, Narosa Publishing House. (An edited book, contributed by faculties of dierent IITs. Consists of Numerical Methods, FDM as well as FVM, Stream-function vorticity formaulation, solution of NS equation for incompressible and compressible ow and grid generation). The Basics with
(Introductory book with emphasis on
3. K. A. Homann, S. T. Chiang, Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers - Volume 1, Engineering Education System. (Excellent student-oriented book with emphasis on Finite Dierence Method. Some numerical analysis. Volume 2 and Volume 3 follow up with more advanced material.) 4. O. Zikanov, Essential Computational Fluid Dynamics, Wiley India. (An overview of both Finite Dierence and Finite Volume Methods. Good collection of topics.) 5. J. Tu, G. H. Yeoh and C. Liu, Computational Fluid Dynamics: ented towards use of commercial softwares.) A
Practical Approach, Butterworth-Heinemann (Indian Edition). (Ori-
Intermediate to Advanced:
1. S. V. Patankar, Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Taylor and Francis (Indian Edition). (The classical introduction to the Finite Volume Method.) 2. H. K. Versteeg, W. Malalasekera, An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method, Pearson Education (Indian Edition). (More topics than Patankar's book.) 3. A. W. Date, Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge (Indian Edition). (A detailed Finite Volume unstructured grid formulation is presented.) 4. J. H. Ferziger, M. Peric, Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Springer (Indian Edition). (Both Finite Dierence and Finite Volume Methods are presented, slightly advanced treatment.) 5. J. C. Tannehill, D. A. Anderson, R. H. Pletcher, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Taylor and Francis (Indian Edition). (A wide coverage of topics. Focussed mostly on Finite Dierence Method. Some numerical analysis. Some discussion on Finite Volume Method.) 6. P. Niyogi, S. K. Chakrabartty, M. K. Laha, Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, Pearson Education. (Similar in approach to the Tannehill, Anderson, Pletcher book.)
7. T. K. Sengupta, Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Universities Press. (Similar in approach to the Tannehill, Anderson, Pletcher book. More details on numerical analysis.) 8. C. Hirsch, Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows, Butterworth-Heinemann. (A wide coverage of topics including Finite Dierence and Finite Volume Methods. Excellent reference book.) 9. C. A. J. Fletcher, Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics, Vol 1 and 2, Springer. (A reference book more than a textbook.) 10. T. J. Chung, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge (Indian Edition). (A reference book more than a textbook.)
