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Handbook of flow visualization /

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Compiles major techniques of flow visualization and demonstrates their applications in various fields of science and technology. This book includes a chapter that covers flow visualization applications in large wide tunnels for airplane and automobile testing.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Yang, Wen-Jei, 1931- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Taylor & Francis, 2001.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Flow visualization.
Écoulement > Visualisation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Reference.
Flow visualization
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Fundamentals
  • Introduction / Wen-Jei Yang
  • Fluid Dynamics / Tsuyoshi Asanuma, Yoshimichi Tanida
  • Heat and Mass Transfer Fundamentals for Flow Visualization / Wen-Jei Yang
  • pt. 2. Methods
  • Liquids / H. Werle
  • Gases: Smokes / Thomas J. Mueller
  • Spark Tracing and Electric Discharge / Y. Nakayama
  • Surface Tracing Methods / R. Reznicek
  • Liquid Crystals / N. Kasagi, R.J. Moffat, M. Hirata
  • Tufts / J.P. Crowder
  • Streaming Birefringence / W. Merzkirch
  • Optical Deflectometry by Speckle Photography / W. Merzkirch
  • Showdowgraph and Schlieren / Michel Philbert, Jean Surget, Claude Veret
  • Interferometry / Michel Philbert, Jean Surget, Claude Veret
  • Light Sheet Technique / Michel Philbert, Jean Surget, Claude Veret
  • Planar Fluorescence Imaging in Gases / Ronald K. Hanson, Jerry M. Seitzman
  • pt. 3. Image Processing and Computer-Assisted Methods
  • Digital Processing of Interferograms / Giovanni Maria Carlomagno, Armando Rapillo
  • Optical Image Processing / Lambertus Hesselink
  • Ultrasonic Image Processing / Michiyoshi Kuwahara, Shigeru Eiho, Kunihiro Chihara
  • Cardiac Image Processing / Shigeru Eiho, Michiyoshi Kuwahara
  • Optical Tomography / Lambertus Hesselink
  • Thermography / R. Monti
  • Flow Solutions / Robert E. Smith, Robert A. Kudlinski
  • Flow-Field Survey Data / Allen E. Winkelmann
  • Computer-Aided Flow Visualization / C.R. Smith
  • pt. 4. Applications
  • Aerospace and Wind Tunnel Testing / G.S. Settles
  • Smoke Flow Visualization in Large Wind Tunnels and Flight Testing Using the Flying-Strut Traverser / James P. Crowder
  • Infrared Cameras for Boundary Layer Transition Visualization in Industrial Wind Tunnel and Flight Testing / James P. Crowder
  • Water Tunnel Testing / H. Werle
  • Internal Flows / K.C. Cheng
  • Vortices / Peter Freymuth
  • Explosive Flows: Shock Tubes and Blast Waves / John M. Dewey
  • Interferometry in Heat and Mass Transfer on Earth and in Space / J. Koster, R. Owen
  • Double-Diffusive Convection / Josef Tanny, A.B. Tsinober
  • Infrared Thermography in Convective Heat Transfer / Giovanni Maria Carlomagno, Luigi de Luca
  • Multiphase Flow and Pulsed-Light Velocimetry / Wen-Jei Yang
  • Gas Turbine Disk Cooling Flows / J.R. Pincombe
  • Coronary Arteries / Hani N. Sabbah [and others]
  • Cardiovascular Systems / Ajit P. Yoganathan [and others]
  • Medicine and Biology / Wen-Jei Yang
  • Indoor Environments / G.S. Settles
  • Agriculture / Junta Doi
  • Building Aerodynamics / W. Frank
  • Land Vehicles / A. Cogotti.