Welcome to ChE Links from Dr.
Bernhard Spang. Dr. Spang has brought this extensive collection of chemical
engineering links from his site at About.com. We're happy to have this collection
now available on The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page.
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
Dimensionless Parameters
Definition and meaning of many dimensionless numbers.
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/topics/DimensionlessParameters.html
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
Fluids Movie Archive
From Innovative Technology Solutions Corporation, computer generated animations of fluid flow phenomena in MPEG format.
http://www.swcp.com/itsc/itscwww/movies/index.htm
Fundamentals of Compressible Flow
Textbook by Genick Bar-Meir, published under the GNU Free Documentation License.
http://www.potto.org/gasDynamics/gasDynamics.php
HYDROFLOTM 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/
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
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
Welcome to ChE Links from Dr.
Bernhard Spang. Dr. Spang has brought this extensive collection of chemical
engineering links from his site at About.com. We're happy to have this collection
now available on The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page.
