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FLUID MECHANICS VIDEO SERIES

This series is now located in the Media Services Department in the Langsam Library.

The video itself has the same call number as the film notes.

1. FUNDAMENTALS OF BOUNDARY LAYERS No. 21623 (24 minutes)

This film demonstrates the basic aspects of viscous incompressible boundary layers: what causes them, how they grow, how they respond to pressure gradients, the main stages in the transition of laminar layers to turbulent ones, and the differences in behavior of laminar and turbulent layers.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL # TL574.B6F86 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. RAREFIED GAS DYNAMICS No. 21622 (33 minutes)

The film shows the evolution of flow fields as density is varied from continuum levels to the rarefied levels of free-molecule flow.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC161.R37 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. EULERIAN AND LAGRANGIAN DESCRIPTIONS IN FLUID MECHANICS No. 21621 (27 minutes)

This film illustrates the two principal ways of describing fluid motion, using computer-generated displays of displacement, velocity, and acceleration fields for several simple flows.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# qc145.2.E97 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. STRATIFIED FLOW No. 21618 (26 minutes)

The experiments in the film show that density variations, together with gravity, make possible forces that can generate internal waves, inhibit turbulent diffusion, or create strong velocity gradients and jets.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC151.7.S77 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. LOW-REYNOLDS-NUMBER FLOW No. 21617 (33 minutes)

This fascinating film demonstrates the phenomenon of "inertia-free" flows in which viscous forces dominate the balance of forces.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC151.7.L69 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. WAVES IN FLUIDS No. 21611 (33 minutes)

This feature presents experimental demonstrations of concepts in one- dimensional wave motion using a water channel, a flume, and shock tubes.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC157.W38 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. SURFACE TENSION IN FLUID MECHANICS No. 21610 (29 minutes)

Here are experiments illustrating effects of surface tension, including soap film intersections, break-up of jets and sheets into droplets, capillary action, wetting and non-wetting droplets, splashing of a drop in slow motion, chemical and electric effects, wine tears, generation of bubbles in boiling water and carbonated liquids, and bubble motion in temperature gradients.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC183.S87 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. FLOW VISUALIZATION No. 21607 (31 minutes)

The study demonstrates the use of flow visualization to improve understanding of complex flows, using hydrogen bubble and dye injection techniques, in flows involving boundary layer separation and transition, vortex generation, and turbulence. Also illustrated are the kinematic concepts linking visual observations to the velocity field in steady and unsteady flows: streamline, streakline, pathline, and time.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC151.7.F66 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF DRAG No. 21601 (Parts 1-3=120 minutes)

Here's an introduction to many of the major concepts of fluid mechanics - building up to similitude, Reynolds Number, laminar and turbulent boundary layers, pressure and friction drag, and effects of geometric shape on total drag.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# TL574.D7F58 1980 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. CAVITATION No. 21620 (31 minutes)

Cavitation is seen on hydrofoils, marine propellers, pumps, turbines, and dam spillways. Flow speed, hydrofoil incidence, ambient pressure, and propeller RPM are varied to demonstrate their effects on the strength and extent of the cavitating region.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# qc151.7.c38 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. FLOW INSTABILITIES No. 21619 (27 minutes)

The main experiment, generation of surface waves by wind in a water channel, is used to illustrate the general features of flow instability.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC145.2.F56 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. TURBULENCE No. 21626 (29 minutes)

This program illustrates many of the important aspects of turbulence: effect of Reynolds Number on inception, increased pressure drop in pipe- flow, turbulent transport of momentum and scalar properties, and others.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC145.2.T87 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. ROTATING FLOWS No. 21624 (29 minutes)

Phenomena associated with rotation of homogeneous fluids are illustrated.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC151.7.R67 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. CHANNEL FLOW OF A COMPRESSIBLE FLUID No. 21616 (29 minutes)

Schlieren flow visualization and simultaneous display of the pressure distribution along a channel of varying area demonstrate the phenomena of choking, blocking, and starting.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC152.5.C43 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS No. 21615 (27 minutes)

Experiments using transparent electrolyte, mercury, and liquid sodium- potassium alloy demonstrate the interactions between electromagnetic and velocity fields that are central to magnetogydrodynamics.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC151.7.M34 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. AERODYNAMIC GENERATION OF SOUND No. 21625 (44 minutes)

This film describes the mechanism of sound generation by turbulence resulting from an instability of steady flow. Elementary source models are illustrated.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# TL573.A37 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. BOUNDARY LAYER CONTROL No. 21614 (25 minutes)

This film shows the effects and usefulness of geometric shaping, suction, and blowing on airfoils in controlling boundary layer transition and separation to produce higher lift and/or drag.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# TL574.B6B68 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF FLUIDS No. 21613 (22 minutes)

Non-Newtonian viscous fluid behavior is illustrated using several different substances, and is contrasted to Newtonian viscous fluid behavior.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC189.5L.R44 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. SECONDARY FLOW No. 21612 (30 minutes)

This film study provides demonstrations of secondary flows in a sink- vortex tank and a bend in an open channel.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC151.7.S43 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. PRESSURE FIELDS AND FLUID ACCELERATION No. 21609 (30 minutes)

This film presents experiments in a small water tunnel demonstrating the connection between velocity and pressure fields, primarily in diffusers, verturis, and channel bends.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC152.P74 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. DEFORMATION OF CONTINUOUS MEDIA No. 21608 (38 minutes)

Here's an introduction to the concepts of rotation, strain, principal aces and deformation rate by analysis of patterns marked on the surface of glycerine moving in a rectilinear Couette flow.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC151.7.D44 1985 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

1. VORTICITY No. 21605-6 (44 minutes:2 parts)

This film demonstrates phenomena relating to vorticity and circulation, intending to help the viewer acquire an intuitive grasp of these concepts and their usefulness in understanding fluid motion.

FOR FILM NOTES, SEE CALL# QC159.V67 1980 - IN LANGSAM MEDIA

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