Fluid mechanics measurements
Abstract
The advent of sophisticated numerical methods for the study and prediction of fluid flows has not diminished, but rather enhanced, the need for improved measurement techniques, especially in the cases of turbulent and three-dimensional flow studies. Attention is presently given to examples of fluid mechanics measurements concerned with wind tunnels, propeller vibrations, and turbulent mixing layers, the physical laws of fluid mechanics, the uses of differential pressure measurements, the capabilities of thermal anemometers and laser velocimeters, and metering devices for volume flow measurements. Also discussed are flow visualization by direct injection, shadowgraph, schlieren, and interferometric techniques of flow measurement, measurements in non-Newtonian fluids, wall shear stress measurements, and two-phase flow techniques for gas-liquid systems.
- Publication:
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Washington
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983wdch.book.....G
- Keywords:
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- Flow Measurement;
- Flowmeters;
- Fluid Dynamics;
- Measuring Instruments;
- Flow Distribution;
- Flow Visualization;
- Fluid Injection;
- Hot-Film Anemometers;
- Hot-Wire Anemometers;
- Interferometry;
- Laser Doppler Velocimeters;
- Methodology;
- Mixing Layers (Fluids);
- Nonnewtonian Fluids;
- Pressure Measurement;
- Schlieren Photography;
- Shadowgraph Photography;
- Shear Stress;
- Technology Utilization;
- Temperature Measurement;
- Two Phase Flow;
- Volume;
- Wall Flow;
- Instrumentation and Photography