Fluid Flow: Lecture Transcripts

Flow Measurement

Velocity meters, Pitot tube 4.1.1, 4.1.2

Head meters: Incompressible fluids: Orifice, Nozzle, Venturi 4.2.1,

Compressible fluid: Orifice, Nozzle, Venturi, Critical Flow Conditions 4.2.2, Orifice Plate 4.2.5

Area Meter: Rotameter 4.3.1

Fluid Dynamics: Energy Balances

Pressure Drop, Material of construction: 4.4.1, 4.5.1,

Incompressible Fluid Flow 

Pipe Length 4.5.2, Fluid Velocity 4.5.3
Pipe Size 4.5.4
Pipe Roughness

Miscellaneous losses

K, 4.8.1, Equivalent Length 4.8.2, Minor Losses, and fitting losses, flow coefficient 4.8.4

Pump Work 4.4.2

Compressible fluid 

Isothermal conditions 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3

Isentropic condition 4.7.1, 4.18

Piping network 4.10.1, 4.10.2, 4.10.3

Transport of Fluids

Pumping similitude, impeller diameter, efficiency 4.9.1, 4.9.2
Centrifugal pumps, Specific speed, characteristic curves 4.9.3
Series and parallel arrangement 4.9.4

Net Positive Suction Head 4.9.5

Figures and Tables