Applied Fluid Mechanics Lab Manual
The text covers most basic areas in experimental fluid mechanics.
The content is error free. However, many figures in the textbook do not show clarity and are sometimes confusing with too much detail in small spaces.
The text covers many important basic fluid mechanics related experiments that are very important in undergraduate fluid mechanics. However, most experiments use basic equipment and the authors did not make any attempt to introduce basic advanced measurement techniques like PIV. There are quite a few PIV systems specially designed for undergraduate education.
The authors are sufficiently clear in their explanations and presentation of the material. However, the instruction with regard to operating the equipment is missing. While it is difficult to put out a specific set of 'general' instructions for operating the equipment, the authors could have used the equipment available in their laboratory and could have written down the operating instructions for that specific equipment. That would provide a general sense of how similar instruments could be operated and how the data could be collected.
The lab manual is, in general, consistent within the framework of basic fluid mechanics experiments for undergraduates.
The text is well divided into compact modules which are complete experiments in themselves.
The topics are presented in a logical fashion in increasing order of difficulty and follows the general pattern of many standard fluid mechanics textbooks.
Some of the images in the lab manual are too 'congested'. There are too many details that are fit into a small space. One suggestion is to split up the figures into multiple sub figures.
The lab manual reads well and is mostly free of grammatical errors.
This reviewer did not find anything in the lab manual that is culturally insensitive.