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Mechanics of Fluids

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Absolute pressure 46<br />

Absolute viscosity 24–6<br />

Acceleration 81, 89<br />

convective 90<br />

<strong>of</strong> fluid particle 89–90<br />

substantial 89<br />

temporal 90<br />

Acoustic velocity 493, 496<br />

Actuator disc 151<br />

Added mass 393<br />

Adhesion 28<br />

Adiabatic flow in pipe 531–7<br />

Adiabatic frictionless<br />

conditions 522<br />

Adiabatic process 19, 488<br />

Adiabatic temperature lapse<br />

rate 79–80<br />

Aer<strong>of</strong>oils 403–9<br />

definitions 403<br />

finite span 406–9<br />

in high-speed flow 544–6<br />

infinite span 404–6<br />

separation 335–8<br />

span <strong>of</strong> 403<br />

vortex starting 405<br />

Affinity laws for pumps 640<br />

Air cavitation 620<br />

Air locks 107<br />

Airy waves 467<br />

Alternative depths 432<br />

Anemometer 288<br />

Aneroid barometer 50<br />

Angle <strong>of</strong> attack 403<br />

Angle <strong>of</strong> heel 72<br />

Angle <strong>of</strong> incidence 403<br />

Angular velocity 9<br />

Antinodes 478<br />

Archimedes, Principle <strong>of</strong> 70<br />

Area coefficient 580<br />

Aspect ratio 403<br />

Atmosphere<br />

equilibrium <strong>of</strong> 46–8, 79<br />

stability <strong>of</strong> 79<br />

(unit) 14<br />

Atmospheric properties<br />

670–1<br />

Attitude angle<br />

(<strong>of</strong> bearing) 234<br />

Avogadro’s hypothesis 18<br />

Axial-flow machine 596<br />

Axial-flow pumps 634–5<br />

Axial-flow turbine 596, 607<br />

Axi-symmetric flow 33<br />

Backward difference 356<br />

Backward-facing blades 629<br />

Backwater curve 457, 462<br />

Bar (unit) 9, 14<br />

Barometer 49–50<br />

Bearings<br />

inclined slipper 222–8<br />

<strong>of</strong> infinite length 231<br />

journal 230–9<br />

very short 235<br />

Bend-meter 290<br />

Bends, losses in 266–8<br />

Bernoulli constant 381<br />

Bernoulli’s equation 92–6,<br />

107, 391<br />

applications 109–30<br />

significance <strong>of</strong> terms in<br />

95–6<br />

Bingham plastic 197<br />

Blade element theory 637<br />

Blasius’s formula (friction in<br />

smooth pipes) 254<br />

Blasius’s solution for laminar<br />

boundary layer 308–9<br />

Bluff body 325<br />

Boiling 16<br />

Index<br />

Borda–Carnot head loss 262<br />

Bore 428, 482<br />

Boundary-element method<br />

(BEM) 356, 358<br />

Boundary layer 298–352<br />

control 338–9<br />

definition 298<br />

description <strong>of</strong> 299<br />

displacement thickness<br />

301<br />

laminar 300, 306–9<br />

momentum equation<br />

303–6<br />

momentum integral<br />

equation 306<br />

momentum thickness 302<br />

in open channels 423–4<br />

transition region 299<br />

see also Laminar boundary<br />

layer; Turbulent boundary<br />

layer<br />

Bourdon gauge 55–6<br />

Boyle’s Law 490<br />

Broad-crested weir 444–7<br />

Bulk modulus <strong>of</strong> elasticity 20<br />

Buoyancy 69–71<br />

centre <strong>of</strong> 70, 72<br />

Calorically perfect gas 18<br />

Capillary depression,<br />

capillary rise 29<br />

Capillary waves 183, 469<br />

Cascade 267<br />

Cauchy number 166<br />

Cauchy–Riemann equations<br />

400<br />

Cavitation 16, 107, 619–22<br />

in centrifugal pumps<br />

643–4<br />

damage 619–20

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