The visualization of fluid flow has played a major role in the development of fluid dynamics and its applications, from the evolution of flight to tracking weather, and understanding the flow of blood. The Fluid Dynamics Division of the American Physical Society sponsors an annual competition for outstanding images of fluid flow. This volume includes a selection of winners from 1985 to the present. Each image is accompanied by some explanatory text, making the volume an important acquisition for anyone involved in fluid flow research.
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"A Gallery of Fluid Motion and the accompanying web page are useful sources of materials for undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics...[It] succeeds both in conveying the beauty of fluid flow and as a reference for courses in fluid mechanics." Daniel V. Schroeder, Weber State University, American Journal of Physics
"Every teacher of fluid mechanics should buy a copy of this book for personal pleasure and for the education of his or her students." AIAA Journal
"Every teacher of fluid mechanics should buy a copy of this book for personal pleasure and for the education of his or her students." AIAA Journal
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The visualization of fluid flow has played a major role in the development of fluid dynamics and its applications, from the evolution of flight to the tracking of weather to understanding the flow of blood. The Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society annually sponsors a competition for outstanding images of fluid flow. This is a selection of the winners since 1985. Each image comes with some explanatory text, making the Gallery an attractive and essential work for everyone interested in the art and science of fluid flow.
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A pretty little book. It brings together several papers on fluid mechanics, where each paper is distinguished by one or more snapshots of fluid flow. Inspiring to the researcher, in much the same way as perhaps hardcopies of VLSI designs are to the chip designer.
But the papers and diagrams here also serve a serious purpose. In fluid mechanics, a lot of qualitative understanding can arise from studying such diagrams. Not the least because sometimes modelling the equations leads to massive sets of numerical results, which might have to be understood visually. And in the book, the diagrams are of actual experimental results, not simulations, but the idea is the same. You often need some diagrams to understand the underlying phenomena.
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Lots of pictures that would look great in color. In fact are pretty good in shades of grey. Formatting is good with an occasional miss. Descriptions are sketchy. Some give adequate parameters some not. Good source of pretty picts for comparison with other results or models. Contents works well.
Oh, Nooooo!!! I was hoping that the color images would appear on the PC Kindle App. No such luck! PC version is also in shades of grey! To see color images try the Google books preview.
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It's an interesting collection of pictures.,
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Quite fascinating to actually see what is happening to the fluids in various situations. There are some basic descriptions for the diagrams. Not really for entry level learning but it's a nice supplement for a Calculus/Diff EQ based fluid dynamics class.
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Snapshots are shown of the destabilization of a slow round jet (velocity u1) by a fast coflowing annular jet (velocity u2) in water with u2/u1=3 as manifested by the mixing of a high Schmidt number dye. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
smoke visualization, unsteady structure, vortex breakdown, dynamic stall, vortex methods, laser sheet, wake vortex, wake vortices, vortex ring, instantaneous image, shear layer, trailing vortices, vortex pair, instability waves, bluff body, flow visualization, vortex structure, fill level, shock tube, turbulent jet, capillary waves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Fluid Mech, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, New York, Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Aerospace Sciences Division, Keywords Faraday, Keywords Hele-Shaw, Keywords Mie New!
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Snapshots are shown of the destabilization of a slow round jet (velocity u1) by a fast coflowing annular jet (velocity u2) in water with u2/u1=3 as manifested by the mixing of a high Schmidt number dye. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
smoke visualization, unsteady structure, vortex breakdown, dynamic stall, vortex methods, laser sheet, wake vortex, wake vortices, vortex ring, instantaneous image, shear layer, trailing vortices, vortex pair, instability waves, bluff body, flow visualization, vortex structure, fill level, shock tube, turbulent jet, capillary waves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Fluid Mech, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, New York, Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Aerospace Sciences Division, Keywords Faraday, Keywords Hele-Shaw, Keywords Mie New!
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- An Album of Fluid Motion by Milton Van Dyke in Front Matter, and page 64
- Japan Inside Out (A Personally Oriented Guidebook) by Jay Gluck on page 40
- Atlas of Visualization by Visualization Soc of Japan on page 74
- Fluid Dynamics by James W. Daily on page 40
- Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour by Mark Wilson on page 587
- Measurement in Fluid Mechanics by Stavros Tavoularis in Front Matter
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