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Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook: Energy and Power, Volume 4, Third Edition.

Edited by Myer Kutz
CHAPTER 2 Copyright  2006 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

FLUID MECHANICS
Reuben M. Olson
College of Engineering and Technology
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio

1 DEFINITION OF A FLUID 47 9.1 Laminar and Turbulent Flow 67
9.2 Boundary Layers 68
2 IMPORTANT FLUID
PROPERTIES 47 10 GAS DYNAMICS 70
10.1 Adiabatic and Isentropic Flow 71
3 FLUID STATICS 47 10.2 Duct Flow 72
3.1 Manometers 48 10.3 Normal Shocks 73
3.2 Liquid Forces on Submerged 10.4 Oblique Shocks 74
Surfaces 48
3.3 Aerostatics 49 11 VISCOUS FLUID FLOW IN
3.4 Static Stability 52 DUCTS 76
11.1 Fully Developed
4 FLUID KINEMATICS 52 Incompressible Flow 77
4.1 Velocity and Acceleration 53 11.2 Fully Developed Laminar
4.2 Streamlines 53 Flow in Ducts 78
4.3 Deformation of a Fluid 11.3 Fully Developed Turbulent
Element 54 Flow in Ducts 78
4.4 Vorticity and Circulation 56 11.4 Steady Incompressible Flow
4.5 Continuity Equations 56 in Entrances of Ducts 80
11.5 Local Losses in Contractions,
5 FLUID MOMENTUM 58 Expansions, and Pipe Fittings;
5.1 The Momentum Theorem 58 Turbulent Flow 83
5.2 Equations of Motion 59 11.6 Flow of Compressible Gases
in Pipes with Friction 83
6 FLUID ENERGY 60
6.1 Energy Equations 60 12 DYNAMIC DRAG AND LIFT 86
6.2 Work and Power 62 12.1 Drag 86
6.3 Viscous Dissipation 62 12.2 Lift 87
7 CONTRACTION COEFFICIENTS 13 FLOW MEASUREMENTS 87
FROM POTENTIAL FLOW 13.1 Pressure Measurements 88
THEORY 62 13.2 Velocity Measurements 89
13.3 Volumetric and Mass Flow
8 DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS Fluid Measurements 91
AND DYNAMIC SIMILARITY 63
8.1 Dimensionless Numbers 63 BIBLIOGRAPHY 93
8.2 Dynamic Similitude 65

9 VISCOUS FLOW AND
INCOMPRESSIBLE BOUNDARY
LAYERS 67

All figures and tables produced, with permission, from Essentials of Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Fourth
Edition, by Reuben M. Olsen, copyright 1980, Harper & Row, Publishers.

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