Archive for May, 2010
Welcome to Fluid mechanics
Fluid mechanics is one of the oldest and richest branches of mechanics and applied physics. Fluid mechanics has been studied (formally or informally) since the beginning of recorded history. We are literally immersed in fluids, our bodies are primarily water, and we simply cannot live without air an
LUBRICATION THEORY
Introduction Back in the spring of '98, one of our Biomedical Engineering faculty came by to guest host my Intermediate Fluid Mechanics course. Because her research expertise is in Bio-Tribology, I became inspired to write up these pages on lubrication theory for one of my Flow of the Week e
Tools for Engineering Fluid Mechanics
The links below will take you to my calculators designed for "plumbing" applications. Online calculators or any "canned" software are not well suited to engineering . Most of the activities in engineering fluid mechanics involve setting up a control volume for the problem at hand which then giv
THE SHAPE OF RAINDROPS
Most people and even many engineers would guess that the shape of a raindrop is the familiar teardrop shape: Cartoon tear drop However, the above teardrop shape appears only in cartoons and the real shape is closer to the flattened hamburger bun shape seen in the photos at the right. In each cas