…To our family
Depy
Andreas
Nikos
Giannis
Lilian
…as without their support none of this would have ever been possible for us
Engineering, Energy and Architecture Set
coordinated by
Lazaros E. Mavromatidis
Volume 3
First published 2018 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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ISBN 978-1-78630-140-6
This book presents an extended and detailed analysis of both the flow phenomena in closed and open channels and the flows around solid bodies. It comprises two volumes. This book is a specialized resource for those students, engineers and researchers who want to focus on the industrial applications of flows and study the fascinating world of internal and external flow phenomena.
We have both had extensive experience in teaching, studying and researching fluids since the completion of our respective PhD theses. We felt that it was time to write about the practical and analytical aspects of flow applications, all of which can be applied in industrial flows, to support researchers, engineering students and industrial engineers in the field of fluids in order to optimize their work in “flows”.
For the first author, the “fluids direction” began in the early stages of her PhD thesis study in Computational Fluid Dynamics in 1998 at the National Technical University of Athens. The second author’s knowledge of the fluids’ path is very extensive, obtained from more than 45 years of studies and work involved in his PhD thesis and further research work at the University of Patras, as well as through his position as Professor of Aerodynamics at the Hellenic Air Force Academy, spanning more than 35 years.
We have both gained substantial experience in Fluid Mechanics research through numerous publications, presentations at international conferences, academic textbook authoring, teaching through international experiences and collaborations. However, we felt that more should be offered to the Fluid Mechanics community, and hence this book.
Although we both have experience in writing for academic textbooks, this is our first publication that caters to international students, researchers and engineers, considering the industrial phenomena that are met in international industries and we have tried to present most of the applications in flows inside or around bodies. This book is based on books written previously by us on Fluid Mechanics and on Aerodynamics, but for the first time our work focuses on the practical aspects of industrial internal and external flows.
Christina, the first author, offers this textbook to the Bahrain polytechnic engineering students and all the industrial delegates who have worked with her in “flows” for many years. She also wishes to express her appreciation for her colleagues, namely Payal Modi, for the thousands of hours of constructive discussions and collaborations in fluids aspects, to Lazaros E. Mavromatidis for his support during the publishing procedure, to her father George who has been her mentor for all these years and to Stephanie Sutton and Amerissa Kapela for their continuing support with the quality of the academic English language. Additionally, George, the second author, wishes to share his more than 40 years of experience in fluids with the fluids community around the world and support them in their “flows” work as best he can.
We both have a special sentimental feeling for this book in that we are extremely proud that we have been able to write, publish and offer it to you, hoping that it will really support you in your fluids journey. We have both worked on fluids with a passion not only for our students, but also to honor our colleagues around the world. We are equally happy to say that the Fluid Mechanics community has been served by the same family for more than 40 years. We hope that we will be physically and mentally healthy to continue to serve our students and support our colleagues in the fluids aspects in the future.
We hope that you will enjoy this book and be engaged with the fascinating world of flows.
Christina G. GEORGANTOPOULOU
George A. GEORGANTOPOULOS
February 2018