Basics of Fluid Mechanics

This book describes typical issues that are taught and covered in first year class of fluid mechanics with various example applications with many visual illustrations. The focus of the book is on effective learning and current state of the art.   The presentation is built from ground up to facilitate familiarity with many concepts used in real life. The concepts are described in easy and plain terms avoiding the jargon as much as possible. The real word examples are provided engaging the readers with the material.  There are several unique parts of the book.  This is the only book containing many innovative ideas, for example describing Nusselt methods (Dimensional analysis). It contains extensive description of integral methods, Reynolds Transport Theorem, Differential governing Equations.    Many consider this book chapter on fluid statics as the best and most extensive possible. Or consider the chapter on added properties (added mass) the best and simplest explanation on the topic. 

     The chapters on ideal flow and open channel flow chapters are probably with the deepest explanations.
The book contains several questions inspired by GATE  (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering ) and solutions. Other questions are used in many exams around the world.

        Bar-Meir's ideas are spreading around, as can be evidenced by several things: On the one hand, Dr. Jiarong Hong, from the University of Minnesota, alleged that the solution for the deep ocean is useless or cumbersome.  On the other hand, Dr. Sandip Ghosal, from Northwestern University, plagiarized Bar-Meir's work on deep ocean pressure calculations, and he spent almost a week teaching this topic, and even copied Bar-Meir's nomenclature.  In fact, one-third of the mid-quarter exam that he gave to his students was taken from this topic.  It is also interesting to point out that Dr.~Hong also suggested to ``burn'' the Eckert (Schmidt) dimensional analysis method, which Eckert introduced to heat and mass transfer education. 100 years of use of Schmidt/Eckert method now and it is currently
almost exclusive use, the genius Hong think that shout be ignored. 

  The adherence that Dr. Ghosal displayed to Bar-Meir's work was probably because he did not think that he would be caught.  On the other hand, Kostas J. Spyrou, when he gave his keynote lecture, basically copied many concepts that were developed by Bar-Meir (such as the stability dome) and presented them as his ideas.  These concepts had never appeared in the literature before.  It is interesting to point out that Dr. Spyrou has been observed downloading Bar-Meir's book. Dr. Spyrou's behavior is not unique to him only. Dr. Kenneth Brezinsky went out of his way to declare that Bar-Meir's calculations of compressible gas potential were useless and baseless.  However, Brian J. Cantwell from Stanford University recently decided to copy Bar-Meir's idea and to dedicate a whole section (2.9) to it in his book (and probably also in his classes). Except that Dr. Cantwell oversimplified the idea (he removed the dimensionless presentation), maybe because he did not fully understand it. There are more cases of this copying/plagiarizing, but normally they try to make the appearance that there is nothing to see here while the using the Bar--Meir's ideas.