Instructional Material

Instructional Material

  • A Physical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by A.J. Smits, published by John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-25349-9 (out November, 1999). This web site maintains an up-to-date list of web sites that contain instructional material.
  • Turbulence Program Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Royal Academy of Engineering.
  • 1998 Syracuse University Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Fluid Dynamics.
  • This link leads to an extensive bibliography on turbulence and related subjects. Maintained by Peter Bradshaw.
  • Foundation Center Online.
  • Von Karman Institute (VKI).
  • VKI Lecture Series Announcements.
  • AGARD Special Course on Compressible Turbulence: especially recommended for graduate students, who are not charged any registration fees.
  • Les Houches Summer School program: " New trends in turbulence ".
  • Applied Aerodynamics: an online aerodynamics textbook by Ilan Kroo.
  • Numerical Methods for 1D Compressible Flows (Interactive Book).
  • Hypermedia version of James Fay's Fluid Mechanics textbook.
  • Viscous Fluid Dynamics course material by Geoffrey K Aldis at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
  • The Expert System for Thermodynamics© , by Subrata (Sooby) Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University.
  • Convection experiments. Easily reproduced convection experiments (smoke in a box) with bizarre results, by Phil Henshaw.
  • Engineering Applets. Interactive Java programs for Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics
  • Ideal Flow Machine
  • The Ideal Flow Mapper
  • The Virtual Shock Tube
  • The Compressible Aerodynamics Calculator
  • Thermodynamics of Air
  • Boundary Layer Applets
  • Mohr's Circle Applet
  • The Java Virtual Wind Tunnel. An interactive two-dimensional inviscid CFD simulation of a channel with a bump. You can experiment with different inlet conditions and change 2nd and 4th order damping, while you see how the solution evolves. The numerical method is a standard Jameson explicit Runge-Kutta scheme. Written by David Oh.
  • Educational CFD program which computes subsonic, transonic, and supersonic flow over 2-D elements. Free download. Program by Axel Rohde.
  • Quick 'n Simple: A Computational Fluid Dynamics program by Scott Forbes and Gerald Recktenwald. Free download, examples, etc.
  • The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook. A very attractive site that is worth a visit. Some of the materials make sense even at a high-school level.
  • SimScience Fluid Dynamics Modules. Three levels of instruction.
  • Aero Design Team Online. Middle school level introduction to aeronautics. Excellent source material, and an extensive list of internet links on similar topics.
  • Discussion on the connection between pressure and velocity, and the interpretation of Bernoulli's equation.
  • Bicycle Aerodynamics.
  • Another Bicycle Aerodynamics site, including links.
  • Computer simulations for MSDOS, demonstrating the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and the Von Karman vortex street, by David Porthouse.
  • Interactive website featuring fluid flow, hydrology, hydraulics, and unit conversion calculations, maintained by Ken Edwards from LMNO Engineering, Research, and Software, Ltd.
  • Informal introduction to Proper Orthogonal Decomposition.
  • Soap film visualization: A How To Guide.
  • MacAirplane Graphics-oriented, conceptual aircraft design program developed at Notre Dame and on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
  • NASA Technical Reports Server at Langley Research Center.
  • NASA Observatorium: How Planes Fly.
  • Tacoma Narrows Bridge Failure. Includes mpeg movie of the disaster.
  • Lighter-than-Air Craft
  • Purdue Engineering Salary Data.
  • UCLA Engineering Salary Data.
  • Peterson's Guides.
  • A Beginners Guide to HTML. Maintained by NCSA.
  • Elements of HTML Style.
  • Hypertext Help with LaTeX. Maintained by GISS.
  • How to convert your document to HTML. Maintained by International Journal of Fluid Dynamics.
  • Index to Shareware on the Net.

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