Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Author: Zhu Renqing
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Publish Date: 2005-08-26
Features: The content of the book includes: experimental fluid mechanics and its history, research content, research methods, and the tasks and challenges of experimental fluid mechanics; similarity theory, hydraulic analogy, numerical simulation, and error analysis and data processing; introduction to experimental fluid mechanics equipment and fluid mechanics testing instruments; an overview of incompressible flow around objects, potential flow theory including cylinder flow and airfoil flow, and the determination of the two-dimensional airfoil surface pressure distribution; boundary layer problems; verification of the momentum and momentum moment theorems and their application in experiments; wave phenomena, an overview of wave theory, wave simulation in the laboratory, and ship model motion experiments in waves; basic theories of pipe flow and experiments on flow in pipes and nozzles; basic equations of compressible flow and compressible flow in nozzles. This book can be used as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in engineering fields such as ship and ocean engineering, civil engineering, port, channel, and coastal engineering, marine engineering, and mechanical engineering, as well as a teaching reference for teachers in related fields.