Engineering: Mechanics of fluids

This new edition describes pressure and temperature sensitive paints (PSP and TSP) in global surface pressure and temperature measurements in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium, PRADS 2019, held in Yokohama, Japan, in September 2019.

Space Micropropulsion for Nanosatellites: Progress, Challenges and Future features the latest developments and progress, the challenges faced by different researchers, and insights on future micropropulsion systems.

Classic and High-Enthalpy Hypersonic Flows presents a complete look at high-enthalpy hypersonic flow from a review of classic theories to a discussion of future advances centering around the Born-Oppenheim approximation, potential energy surface, and critical point for transition.

An introduction to the theory and engineering practice that underpins the component design and analysis of radial flow turbocompressors.

While other methods of drag reduction are well-known in marine R&D and ship design environments worldwide, compliant coating drag reduction remains less well-known and poorly understood.

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies the flow motion in a discretized space.

The excitement and the glitz of mechatronics has shifted the engineering community's attention away from fluid power systems in recent years.

This book examines ascent trajectories of space launch vehicles and re-entry trajectories of space capsules.

This Handbook helps to design and build any kind of force measurement equipment for the use in a wind tunnel.

The book aims to provide an efficient methodology of solving a fluid mechanics problem.

Computational Fluid Mechanics: Selected Papers compiles papers on computational fluid dynamics written between 1967 and 1982.

This textbook is for a one semester introductory course in thermodynamics, primarily for use in a mechanical or aerospace engineering program, although it could also be used in an engineering science curriculum.

Fluid dynamics is the engineering science dealing with forces and energies generated by fluids in motion.

Dieses Fachbuch gibt einen fundierten Einblick in die mehrdimensionale Aerodynamik von Turbokompressoren anhand aktueller Designmerkmale sowie deren physikalischer Grundlagen.

Your solution to mastering fluid mechanicsNeed to learn about the properties of liquids and gases the pressures and forces they exert?

Written by the leading experts in the field, this book results from Vortex Workshop 2023 which took place in San Diego, the USA, on December 11-13.

Ludwig Prandtl hat mit seinen grundlegenden Beiträgen zur Hydro-, Aero-und Gasdyna­ mik die Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der Strömungsmechanik entscheidend geprägt und mit seinen bahnbrechenden Arbeiten in der ersten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhunderts die moderne Strömungsmechanik begründet.

The increasing power of computer resources along with great improvements in observational data in recent years have led to some remarkable and rapid advances in astrophysical fluid dynamics.

This book takes a new approach to air navigation, extending the classic scope of positioning and guidance to efficient and safe 4D flight trajectory management.

This handbook provides both a comprehensive overview and deep insights on the state-of-the-art methods used in wind turbine aerodynamics, as well as their advantages and limits.

This volume includes select peer reviewed proceedings from the 3rd International Conference on Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME 2021) discussing the application of computer based simulations in mechanical and allied engineering disciplines.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of wind engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XVII Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (IN-VENTO), held in Milan, Italy on September 4-7, 2022.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the 9th International and 49th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2022).

The survival of the Aeronautical Industries of Europe in the highly competitive World Aviation Market is strongly dependent on such factors as time-to-market of a new or derivative aircraft and on its manufacturing costs but also on the achievement of a competitive technological advantage by which an increased market share can be gained.

Since the inaugural symposium at the Pennsylvania State University in 1977, the venues for the series of biennial symposia on turbulent shear flows have alternated between the USA and Europe.

Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities.

This book focuses on using and implementing Circulation Control (CC) - an active flow control method used to produce increased lift over the traditionally used systems, like flaps, slats, etc.

The present volume entitled "e;Recent Contributions to Fluid Mechanics"e; is dedicated to Professor Dr.

This Handbook of Numerical Simulation of In-Flight Icing covers an array of methodologies and technologies on numerical simulation of in-flight icing and its applications.

This is a textbook concerned with transport and diffusion of chemicals in the environment.

Wetting and Spreading Dynamics explains how surface forces acting at the three-phase contact line determine equilibrium, hysteresis contact angles, and other equilibrium and kinetics features of liquids when in contact with solids or with other immiscible liquids.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems.

This fully revised, industry-standard resource offers practical details on every aspect of the fundamentals necessary for understanding thermal spray technology, from powder all the way to the final part.

Small Wind Turbines provides a thorough grounding in analysing, designing, building, and installing a small wind turbine.

Current research fields in science and technology were presented and discussed at the EKC2008, informing about the interests and directions of the scientists and engineers in EU countries and Korea.

Combustion systems are confined fields of compressible fluids where exothermic processes of combustion take place, subject to boundary conditions imposed at its borders.

Thermal Properties of Nanofluids presents emerging prospects for understanding and controlling thermophysical properties at the nanoscale.

This book gathers selected, peer-reviewed contributions to the international conference on Water Jet 2023 (WJ2023), organized by the Institute of Geonics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Bringing together materials mechanics and modelling, this book provides a complete guide to damage mechanics of composite materials for engineers.

Compressibility is a property inherent in any material, but it does not always manifest itself.

This Handbook provides researchers, faculty, design engineers in industrial R&D, and practicing engineers in the field concise treatments of advanced and more-recently established topics in thermal science and engineering, with an important emphasis on micro- and nanosystems, not covered in earlier references on applied thermal science, heat transfer or relevant aspects of mechanical/chemical engineering.

This book presents isothermal and non-isothermal multiphase flows with and without phase change or chemical reactions.

Felix Wittmeier gibt einen detaillierten Überblick, welche geometrischen Parameter des Reifens die Aerodynamik eines Fahrzeugs beeinflussen und wie ein aerodynamisch optimierter Reifen gestaltet werden kann.