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

Boundary Layers
Computer Aided Learning course developed at the Universities of Glasgow and Paisley. Covers boundary layer concept, equations, and numerical solution.

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.

Flow Pro 2.0
Low-cost Windows 95/NT hydraulic design software for open channels, orifices, weirs, and sluicegates. Shareware.

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.

Fluid Mechanics Textbook
Online version of James Fay's Fluid Mechanics textbook.

Fluids Movie Archive
From Innovative Technology Solutions Corporation, computer generated animations of fluid flow phenomena in MPEG format.

HYDROFLO^TM for Windows 95/98/NT
Fluid conveyance system design software for piping system analysis and design. Trial version can be downloaded.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Pissing Bucket
Analysis of the factors governing drainage rates through orifices in the bottom of containers and excellent illustration of the solution of real world problems using the principles of fluid mechanics.

PumpBase - Advanced Pump Selection
Windows 95/98/NT software for pump selection. Demo can be downloaded.

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.

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.

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