ABSTRACT

Instrumentation, Measurements, and Experiments in Fluids, Second Edition is primarily focused on essentials required for experimentation in fluids, explaining basic principles, and addressing the tools and methods needed for advanced experimentation. It also provides insight into the vital topics and issues associated with the devices and instruments used for fluid mechanics and gas dynamics experiments. The second edition adds exercise problems with answers, along with PIV systems of flow visualization, water flow channel for flow visualization, and pictures with Schlieren and shadowgraph—from which possible quantitative information can be extracted. Ancillary materials include detailed solutions manual and lecture slides for the instructors.

chapter Chapter 1|7 pages

Needs and Objectives of Experimental Study

chapter Chapter 2|69 pages

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

chapter Chapter 3|126 pages

Wind Tunnels

chapter Chapter 4|58 pages

Flow Visualization

chapter Chapter 5|26 pages

Hot-Wire Anemometry

chapter Chapter 6|45 pages

Analogue Methods

chapter Chapter 7|66 pages

Pressure Measurement Techniques

chapter Chapter 8|12 pages

Velocity Measurements

chapter Chapter 9|57 pages

Temperature Measurement

chapter Chapter 10|9 pages

Measurement of Wall Shear Stress

chapter Chapter 11|33 pages

Mass and Volume Flow Measurements

chapter Chapter 12|15 pages

Special Flows

chapter Chapter 13|27 pages

Data Acquisition and Processing

chapter Chapter 14|15 pages

Uncertainty Analysis