The ability to understand basic fluid mechanics involves using equations to mathematically model physical phenomena encountered in everyday life and in engineering practice. Helping those new to fluid mechanics make sense of its concepts and calculations, this book makes learning a visual experience by introducing the types of problems that students are likely to encounter in practice-and then presenting methods to solve them. This popular text has proven useful in various fluid mechanics and turbomachinery courses, and it assumes knowledge of calculus and physics in its use of mathematics to model physical principles in fluid mechanics.