Viscous Fluid Flow (McGraw-Hill Mechanical Engineering)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0072402318 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 656 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is a Fellow of ASME and in 1991received the ASME Fluids Engineering Award. About the AuthorFrank M White is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at theUniversity of Rhode Island. He studied at Georgia Tech and M.I.T. In 1966 he helpedfound, at URI, the first department of ocean engineering in the country. . Knownprimarily as a teacher and writer, he has received eight teaching awards and has writtenfour textbooks on fluid mechanics and heat transfer.From 1979 to 1990 he was editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of FluidsEngineering
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He studied at Georgia Tech and M.I.T. He is a Fellow of ASME and in 1991received the ASME Fluids Engineering Award. Knownprimarily as a teacher and writer, he has received eight teaching awards and has writtenfour textbooks on fluid mechanics and heat transfer.From 1979 to 1990 he was editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of FluidsEngineering and then served from 1991 to 1997 as chairman