Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics Physics

Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics

A collection of scientific resources about the motion of fluids like liquids and gases.

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• - An antibubble is a ball of liquid surrounded by a thin film of air. Pictures, documentation and links.
  
• - 139 pages script at undergraduate level on the fundamental aspects of non-relativistic fluid dynamics in pdf format.
  
• - Experiments with smoke inside a plexiglass box challenge convectional wisdom. Smoke can unexpectedly act heavier than air and then spontaneously reverse.
  
• - An online fluid dynamics calculator.
  
• - A project report in pdf format gives an overview of existing methods for measuring the shape of water waves. Further a repercussionless system for water height measurements at a 3 x 3 matrix is described.
  
• - Links to historical information for mathematics, science and fluid mechanics.
  
• - Fluids section of engineering directory. Provides definitions and practical applications.
  
• - European Research Community on Fluids, Turbulence and Combustion. Portal to Fluid Dynamics database resources. Free registration required.
  
• - A one-stop internet resource for fluid dynamics and flow engineering professionals
  
• - Introduction to a propulsion technique that utilizes a rotating cone.
  
• - An introduction to the European Collaboration on Particle Image Velocimetry. Links to participating partners, information about courses, conferences and literature.
  
• - This site summarizes the research currently conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology on the fluidic characterization of bioreactors.
  
• - A report in pdf format describes how ellipsoidal water wave motion can be transformed into translatory motion to exchange polluted water in an almost closed sea bay.
  
• - A brief summary of the Navier-Stokes equations governing fluid dynamics and fluid mechanics.
  
• - Exploring the possibility of using flowing soap films as two dimensional fluids. Click on the "science" menu to find this content.
  
• - Explanation of water hammer and pulsation inclusive the formula used to calculate the pressure increase.
  
• - Heat and mass transfer studies using direct numerical simulations of turbulent channel, Couette, and shear flows as well as experiments with tube banks.
  
• - Site discusses fluid salients as a cause for ocean wave formation, cloud formation and geologic structure formation. Several small physical models of salients are also discussed.
  
• - A free one-stop information resource for bio-, micro-, and nano-fluidic systems.
  
• - Course materials from University of Vermont.
  
• - A course in the physics and art of fluid flow for engineering and fine arts photography students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The student gallery has a wide assortment of images ranging from soap films to clouds.
  
• - Provides information and links to fluid power (hydraulics & pneumatics).
  
• - An investigation into aerodynamic vibration excitation systems for in-flight flutter testing of general aviation aircraft. Richard R. Western, Melbourne, 1999.
  
• - Integrates the vector Navier-Stokes equation to obtain a vector form of Bernoulli's law. Provides interpretation and a mathematical basis for doing calculations.
  
• - High-speed "movies" of time-evolving velocity fields in turbulent and combusting gas flows are obtained using a newly developed kilohertz frame-rate cinema Particle Image Velocimetry system.
  
• - Site contains a collection of tutorials, javascript calculators, and links of interest to those doing teaching and research in fluid mechanics, wave propagation, applied physics, and mechanical and aerospace engineering.
  
• - Interactive animation shows how pressure and velocity in a fluid behave according to Bernoulli's Principle.
  
• - The site demonstrates a method of flow visualisation by using an optically active liquid. The advantages of the method and some example applications are described.
  
• - A one-stop resource for professionals working in propulsion, power, and combustion fields.
  
  

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