Rotating Flow

Rotating flow, a specific type of fluid flow involving rotation, is critically important across a wide range of scientific, engineering and product applications, providing design and modeling capability for diverse products such as jet engines, pumps and vacuum cleaners, as well as geophysical flows. Traditional fluid and flow dynamics titles offer the essential background but generally include very sparse coverage of rotating flowswhich is where this book comes in. Beginning with an accessible introduction to rotating flow, recognized expert Peter Childs takes readers 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.

Beginning with an introduction to rotating flow, this book 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.

Autorentext

Peter Childs, FREng, is the Professorial Lead in Engineering Design and Innovation Design Engineering. He is Professor at Large, Co-Director of the Energy Futures Lab, and was Founding Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. His general interests include creativity, innovation, design, fluid flow and heat transfer, energy and robotics. Prior to his current post at Imperial, he was director of the Rolls-Royce supported University Technology Centre for Aero-Thermal Systems, director of InQbate and professor at the University of Sussex. He has contributed to over 200 refereed journal and conference papers, and several books including the Handbook on Mechanical Design Engineering (Elsevier, 2013, 2019) as well as temperature measurements and rotating flow. He has been principal or co-investigator on contracts totaling over £100 million. He is Editor of the Journal of Power and Energy, Professor of Excellence at MD-H, Berlin, and Chairperson at BladeBUG Ltd and Founder Director and Chairperson at QBot Ltd.

Zusammenfassung

"In the book, real engineering applications and natural examples are provided and design-oriented correlations of bulk parameters are frequently given throughout the book.I recommend this book for those graduate students who want a thorough theoretical and modelling foundation in the topic of rotating flow."--***Contemporary Physics, December 19, 2012*

Inhalt

Preface Nomenclature 1 Introduction to Rotating Flow 2 Laws of motion 3 Vorticity and Rotation 4 Discs 5 Rotating Cylinders, Annuli and Spheres 6 Rotating cavities 7 Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulations Appendix A: Air properties Appendix B: Selected mathematical relationships Appendix C: Glossary