Fluid Mechanics and Rheology

Aerodynamics for Students

Online textbook covering fundamentals of fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, and gas dynamics.

http://www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/aero/contents.html

Centrifugal Pump Tutorial

From Pump World, terms, operation, pump curves, calculation of total dynamic head and system head curves, NPSH and cavitation, operation in parallel and in series, and charts.

http://www.pumpworld.com/contents.htm

Flow Pro 2.1

Low-cost Windows 95/NT hydraulic design software for open channels, orifices, weirs, and sluicegates. Shareware.

http://www.prosoftapps.com/flowpro.htm

Fluid Flow Calculator

Tool that calculates flow velocity, Reynolds number, Moody friction factor, head loss, and pressure loss for water-ethylene glycol mixtures. Only for turbulent flow.

http://gearhob.com/eng/design/calculators/calculator-Fluid_Flow.htm

HYDROFLO^TM for Windows

Fluid conveyance system design software for piping system analysis and design. Trial version can be downloaded.

http://www.tahoesoft.com/html/hydroflo.html

Introduction to Continuum Mechanics

Book by Brian Kennett in PostScript format. Covers the concepts of deformation and stress field, constitutive relations for various materials including fluids, and the Navier-Stokes equation.

http://samizdat.mines.edu/kennett/

NPS-Nominal Pipe Size

Database of dimensional, weight, and flow information for more than 2500 sizes of standard and specialty pipes and tubes in different materials. DOS and Windows version. Shareware.

http://www.herne.com/nps.htm

Packed Column Calculator

Shareware for hydraulic design and rating of packed columns and towers from Katmar Software. MS Windows 3.1 and above, 730 kB.

http://www.katmarsoftware.com/pcol.htm

Piping Systems Fluid Flow

Simulation software for hydraulic design and network analysis of piping systems for compressible and incompressible fluids, demo can be downloaded after free registration, Windows 9x/NT.

http://www.fluidflowinfo.com/FluidFlow/FluidFlow.asp

PumpBase - Advanced Pump Selection

Windows software for pump selection. Demo can be downloaded.

http://www.tahoesoft.com/html/pumpbase.htm

Rheological Methods in Food Process Engineering

Free online copy of the book by J. F. Steffe, second edition (second printing) 1996, Freeman Press, East Lansing, MI, USA; PDF file.

http://www.egr.msu.edu/~steffe/freebook/offer.html

Rheology Nomenclature

Dealy, J. M., Official nomenclature for material functions describing the response of a viscoelastic fluid to various shearing and extensional deformations," J. Rheol., 39(1), 1995, Acrobat (PDF) format. "

http://www.rheology.org/sor/publications/j_rheology/rheology_nomenclature/default.htm

Multimedia Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Multimedia engineering book about fluid mechanics by C.C. Ngo and K.C. Gramoll, uses Flash and Director Shockwave plugins.

https://ecourses.ou.edu/cgi-bin/eBook.cgi?topic=fl

Fundamentals of Compressible Flow

Textbook by Genick Bar-Meir, published under the GNU Free Documentation License.

http://www.potto.org/gasDynamics/gasDynamics.php

Dimensionless Parameters

Definition and meaning of many dimensionless numbers.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/topics/DimensionlessParameters.html