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Great book for the price and many good examples.I recommend getting the solutions manual (if you can obtain it).
This book was very difficult to understand on first pass through for my classes in Fluid Mechanics. However I have used it several times as a reference and each time I read it I seem to get more and more out of it. Requires a very good undertanding of vector calculus, but the examples are very helpful and are general enough that you can apply the principles learned to other situations.
Given some time with the book, reading is no problem. This book is one of the best books I've come across as an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering. It gives ample practice problems and example problems. It presents the subject matter very well, in a nice, concise, well thought out order and layout. In addition, the text is unexpectedly not dense for such subject matter, and is very clear. Only fault would be that it does not cover Stream Functions and Dimensional Analysis very well and that it sometimes does not give enough/good example problems for a few subjects. Overall though, a pleasure to use for the course.
The original BSL (red cover) edition contained a wealth of information and detailed derivations of each method. Most of the useful reference material has been eliminated. This new book is quite pathetic when compared to the original. Very little theoretical background and development is presented. Don't waste your money on this book. Buy the original.
Using this book as an undergraduate student, it really was hard for me to understand what it was telling me at first, but combined with a good professor I realized that the book was very readable and has detailed, consise information about transport processes. It also serves as a great reference to fluid mechanics and heat transfer courses.
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