This modern introduction has proven effective in teaching. Excellent illustrations and examples explain the problems and provide enough material for self-study. Concise and comprehensive in one volume: engineers and engineering students, physicists, and applied mathematicians benefit from the wide range of topics covered in this book, which also serves as a reference and table resource. Contents include: fundamentals of hydrostatics, kinematics of fluids, stream function theory, momentum and angular momentum principles, the motion of compressible fluids, the Navier-Stokes equation and its applications.