Case studies in fluid mechanics with sensitivities to governing variables

"Covers a wide range of practical fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer problems - Examines the basic laws of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and mass transfer - Each problem solution starts with simplifying engineering assumptions and identifies the governing equations and dependent...

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Main Author Atesmen, M. Kemal (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, NJ : New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; ASME Press, [2019]
SeriesThe Wiley-ASME Press series in mechanical engineering
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781119524878
1119524873
9781119524717
1119524717
9781119524861
1119524865
9781119524786
1119524784
Physical Description1 online resource (xx, 175 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Draining fluid from a tank
  • Vertical rise of a weather balloon
  • Stability of a floating cone in water
  • Wind drag forces on people
  • Creeping flow past a sphere
  • Venturi meter
  • Fluid's surface shape in a rotating cylindrical tank
  • Pin floating on surface of a liquid
  • Small rain drops
  • Range of an aircraft
  • Designing a water clock
  • Water turbine under a dam
  • Centrifugal separation of particles
  • A simple carburetor
  • Ideal gas flow in nozzles and diffusers
  • Laminar flow in a pipe
  • Water supply from a lake to a factory
  • Air or water supply required to cool a pc board
  • Convection mass transfer through air-water interface
  • Heating a room by natural convection
  • Laminar flow through porous material
  • Condensation on the surface of a vertical plate in laminar flow regime
  • A non-newtonian fluid flow in a pipe
  • Bubble rise in a glass of beer.