Rotating Flow

Download or read book Rotating Flow written by Peter R. N. Childs and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rotating flow is critically important across a wide range of scientific, engineering and product applications, providing design and modeling capability for everything from jet engines to pumps and vacuum cleaners to geophysical flows. Even where rotation is not initially evident, the subject is often fundamental to understanding and modeling the details of flow physics. Developed over the course of 20 years' research into rotating fluids and associated heat transfer at the Thermo-Fluid Mechanics Research Centre, University of Sussex, Rotating Flow is an indispensable reference and resource for all those working within the gas turbine and rotating machinery industries. Beginning with an accessible introduction to rotating flow, recognized expert Peter Childs takes you through fundamental equations, vorticity and vortices, rotating disc flow, flow around rotating cylinders and flow in rotating cavities, with an introduction to atmospheric and oceanic circulations included to help deepen understanding. Rather than approaching rotating flow from a highly theoretical and mathematically complex angle, this book focuses on the essential equations and provides full workings to take you step-by-step through the theory so you can concentrate on the practical applications.