Fluid Mechanics Links

David Sumner, Ph.D., P.Eng., Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

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This page last updated on November 6, 2009.

 

Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics for Students (Notes)

Aerodynamics of Cycling

Aerofoil Coordinates Database (UIUC)

Aerofoil Simulator

Aerofoil Starting Flow Field (Animation)

Aerospace Digital Library

Aircraft Design Information Sources

Basics of Space Flight (JPL)

Bicycle Aerodynamics

Boundary Layer Research Inc.

Desktop Aeronautics

Helicopter Aviation/Aerodynamics

Interactive Aerofoil Analysis

Interactive Aerofoil Design

Lighter-Than-Air Craft (Airships)

NACA Aerofoil Coordinates

NACA Aerofoil Series

NACA Inlets

Paper Airplanes

Parachute Flight Testing

Project Ornithopter

Software for Aerodynamics and Aircraft Design (Virginia Tech)

Sports Ball Aerodynamics

Vortex Panel Method Codes (Naval Postgraduate School)

Wing-Tip Vortices

XFOIL NEW

 

Aerospace

AerospaceWeb.org

AIAA Wright Flyer Project

Aircraft Range Simulator - interactive (NASA)

Airbus

Aircraft Museum

Airliner Photos

Alenia Aerospace

ATR Aircraft

BAE Systems

Bell Helicopter Textron

Boeing

Bombardier

Britten-Norman

Canadian Space Agency (CSA)

Cardinal Flyers Online

Cessna

Conair Aviation

DAR Corporation

Dassault Aviation

EADS

Eclipse Aviation

Embraer

Engine Simulator - interactive (NASA)

Eurocopter

Eurofighter

European Space Agency (ESA)

F-22 Raptor

fighter-planes.com

Found Aircraft Canada Inc.

General Electric Aircraft Engines

Guide to Russian Combat Aircraft

Gulfstream

Hawker Beechcraft

International Aero Engines (IAE)

Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)

Kaman Aerospace

Military Transport Aircraft (The Aviation Zone)

NASA

Northrop-Grumman

Orenda Aerospace

Piper Aircraft

Pratt & Whitney

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Rolls-Royce

Saab

Scaled Composites

Sikorsky

SNECMA

Spar Aerospace

Textron Lycoming

The Airchive.com

United States Air Force

US Centennial of Flight Commission

V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor

V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor

Winglet Technology NEW

World Airport Guide

Wright Aeronautical Engineering Collection

 

Bluff-Body Aerodynamics

Animations of Flows around Bluff Bodies

Circular Cylinder Near-Wake

Circular Cylinder Near-Wake

Circular Cylinder 3D Vortex Shedding - Animation

Curveball Simulator (NASA)

Golfball Aerodynamics

Helical Strakes

Karman Vortex Street and Circular Cylinder

Karman Vortex Street off Baja Peninsula

Karman Vortex Streets in Nature

Karman Vortices, Alexander Selkirk Island, Pacific Ocean

LES of Vortex Shedding from a Circular Cylinder

Parachute Aerodynamics and Design

Physics of Baseball

Physics of the Curveball (NIST)

Rigid and Flexible Circular Cylinders

Square Cylinder Vortex shedding - Animation

Turbulent Wake of a Circular Cylinder

Unsteady Boundary Layer Separation from a Cylinder

Vortex Image Gallery

Vortex Shedding General Background

Vortex Shedding Simulation

Wake and Jet Flow Fields with PIV

Wake of a Circular Cylinder Using Stereo PIV

 

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

ANSYS

CD-adapco

CFD Animations

CFD Codes List

CFD Online

CFDnet

CFD Review

Fluent

NAS (NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division)

Virtual Album of Fluid Motion

 

 

Conferences

15th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, July 5-8, 2010, Lisbon

7th International Symposium on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Flow-Sound Interactions, & Flow-Induced Vibration & Noise (at the 3rd Joint US-European ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting), August 1-4, 2010, Montreal, Québec, Canada NEW

8th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference (EFMC8), September 13-16, 2010, Munich

IUTAM Symposium on Bluff Body Wakes and Vortex-Induced Vibrations (BBVIV-6), June 22-25, 2010, Capri Island, Italy NEW

 

Engineering Education

Aircraft Design, Synthesis and Analysis (Stanford course)

Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics (NASA) - site index

Merriam-Webster Online (dictionary and thesaurus)

MIT School-Wide Modular Program for Fluid Mechanics

MIT OpenCourseWare

National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films

National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS)

Proto Labs - CNC Machining over the web NEW

School-Wide Modular Program for Fluid Mechanics

THERMOPEDIA

Virtual Engineering/Science Laboratory

Virtual Fluids Laboratory (IIHR)

Virtual Physics Laboratory

World Lecture Hall

 

Flow-Induced Vibrations and Fluid-Structure Interactions

Flow Over a Flexible Cable

History of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

   

 

Flow Visualization

Flow Visualization: A Course in the Physics and Art of Fluid Flow

Flow Visualization Pictures and Movies (Virginia Tech)

Fluid Mechanics (and other) video clips

Gallery of Flow Images - eFluids.com

Gallery of Fluid Mechanics - Virginia Tech

Physics of Fluids Gallery of Fluid Motion

 

 

Fluid Mechanics Topics

Boundary Layer Applets

Boundary Layer Flow - Animation

Boundary Layer Background

Compressible Aerodynamics Calculator

Compressible Flow Movies

Compressible Flow Tables

Converging-Diverging Nozzle Applet

Schlieren Photography

Supersonic Flow

CTR's Gallery of Turbulent Flows

Ideal flow

Irrotational Flow Lecture Notes and Examples

Moody Diagram

Navier-Stokes Equations

Pipe Friction Calculator

Potential flow applets

Shear flow kinematics animation

Sources and vortices

Superposition of potential flows - APPLET

Stagnation point flow animation

Turbulent Boundary Layer Data

Vector fields - APPLET

Vortex panel method

Wavelets

eFluids.com

Fluid Dynamics Links - Princeton University

Fluid Dynamics Links 2

Fluid Dynamics Links 3

Fluid Mechanics Links - Virginia Tech (Prof. Mark Cramer)

Fluid & Solid Mechanics Related Web Pages

Sports Aerodynamics

 

History

Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada

Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre (CAHC)

Canadian Aviation Historical Society

Canada Aviation Museum

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

Heroes of Engineering (ASME) comic book

History of some dimensionless numbers

Flight of the Silver Dart Centennial NEW

Fluid Mechanics Hall of Fame

Hiller Aviation Museum

Heat Transfer Hall of Fame

History of Science and Fluid Mechanics Links - Virginia Tech (Prof. Mark Cramer)

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

Museum of Flight (Seattle)

National Air and Space Museum (USA)

National Aviation Hall of Fame (USA)

National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)

Royal Air Force Museum - Hendon

Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) History Site

Toronto Aerospace Museum

USAF Museum

 

Instrumentation

A.A. Lab Systems hot-wire anemometry

Aerotech A.T.E.

Aeroprobe

Airflow Instruments

ATI force balances *

Auspex Scientific hot-wire anemometry

Dantec Dynamics velocity measurement systems *

Dell Computers *

IBM Desktop Computers *

ILA

JR3 Multiaxis Load Cells force balances

Kanomax USA PIV systems

LaVision PIV systems

Lenovo (IBM) ThinkPad *

Measurement Science Enterprise Inc. mini LDV systems NEW

Measurement Uncertainty (NIST)

National Instruments data acquisition systems *

New Wave lasers *

Nixon Flowmeters *

Oxford Lasers PIV systems

PIV Challenge 2003

PIV Standard Images (Japan Society of Visualization)

PIV Standard Projects (Japan Society of Visualization)

PIVTEC GmbH PIV systems

Rolling Hills Research Corporation

Scanivalve pressure scanners *

Tao Systems hot-film arrays

TSI velocity measurement systems *

Turbulent Flow Instrumentation pressure probes

United Sensor Corporation pressure probes *

URAPIV open source Matlab toolbox for PIV analysis

Validyne Engineering pressure transducers *

 

* These instrumentation products are used with the University of Saskatchewan Low-Speed Wind Tunnel and in the Experimental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory.

Interactive look at digital sampling and filtering.

 

Journals, Magazines and Technical Reports

Aeronautical Journal

AIAA Journal

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Applied Ocean Research  SCIENCE DIRECT

ASME e-Library

Atmospheric Environment  SCIENCE DIRECT

Aviation Week & Space Technology

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Journal

Computers & Fluids  SCIENCE DIRECT

Coastal Engineering Journal

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

European J. of Mech. - B/Fluids  SCIENCE DIRECT

Exp. Thermal & Fluid Science  SCIENCE DIRECT

Experimental Techniques

Experiments in Fluids

Flight International

Flow Meas. & Instrumentation  SCIENCE DIRECT

Flow, Turbulence & Combustion

Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing

Fluid Dynamics Research  SCIENCE DIRECT

Int. Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Int. Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Int. Journal of Heat & Fluid Flow  SCIENCE DIRECT

Int. Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer

Journal of Aerospace Engineering - Part G (IMechE)

Journal of Aircraft (AIAA)

Journal of Flow Visualization & Image Processing

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Journal of Fluids and Structures  SCIENCE DIRECT

Journal of Fluid Science and Tech. (JSME)

Journal of Fluids Engineering (ASME)

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE)

Journal of Hydraulic Research (IAHR)

Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics

Journal of Mech. Eng. Science - Part C (IMechE)

Journal of Offshore Mech. & Arctic Eng. (ASME)

Journal of Sound and Vibration  SCIENCE DIRECT

Journal of Thermal Science and Tech. (JSME)

Journal of Turbulence

Journal of Visualization

Journal of Wind Eng. & Ind. Aero.  SCIENCE DIRECT

JSME Int. J. Series B (Fluids & Thermal Eng.)

McGill Univ. Mech. Eng. Technical Reports

Measurement Science & Technology

NACA Technical Reports

NASA Technical Reports

Ocean Engineering  SCIENCE DIRECT

Physical Review E

Physical Review Letters

Physics of Fluids

Progress in Aerospace Sciences  SCIENCE DIRECT

Review of Scientific Instruments

Scientific American

Sports Engineering

Theoretical & Computational Fluid Dynamics

Virtual Technical Reports

Wind & Structures

Wind Energy

 

For other online journals with full-text access, see the University of Saskatchewan's Library's list of Electronic Journals

For a search of Canadian M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, use the Theses Canada Portal (National Library of Canada)

For a search of non-Canadian M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, use the UMI Digital Dissertations Service

For information on conducting online searches, read this article from PC Magazine

For comprehensive search of the engineering literature, use Engineering Village 2

ISI Journal Title Abbreviations

Google Scholar

Community of Science (COS) Database (Funding Opportunities)

Community of Science (COS) Database (Scholar Universe)

Journal Impact Factors and Citation Analysis

 

Nature

Animal Flight Group

Atmosphere Simulator - NASA

Bad Coriolis (the bathtub vortex problem)

Swimming and PIV (1 of 2)

Swimming and PIV (2 of 2)

Stereo PIV Study of Flow around a Fish

 

 

Properties

Dimensionless Groups

Fluid Properties Calculator

Fundamental Physical Constants (NIST)

International Standard Atmosphere (ISA)

International Standard Atmosphere

NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty

NRC Web Clock

Official U.S. Time

Reynolds Number Calculator

Standard Atmosphere Calculator

Standard Atmosphere Calculator

Thermodynamic Properties of Air

 

Research Centres and Groups

BMT Fluid Mechanics Limited

Center for Turbulence Research (CTR)

Experimental Fluid Dynamics - Virginia Tech

Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratories - Cornell University

Fluid Dynamics - Lehigh University

FLAIR - Monash University

Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories - CALTECH

Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (IIHR)

JDH Consulting (Wind Engineering)

Laboratoire d'etudes aerodynamiques (Universite de Poitiers)

NASA Ames Research Center

National Research Council of Canada (NRC)

National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)

National Wind Technology Center (NWTC)

NRC Institute for Aerospace Research (IAR)

NRC Institute for Ocean Technology (IOT)

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI)

 

Societies

American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

American Physical Society (APS)

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

APEGS

Australasian Wind Engineering Society (AWES)

Canadian Academy of Engineering

Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI)

Canadian Foundation for Climate & Atmos. Sci. (CFCAS)

Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME)

Engineering Institute of Canada

ERCOFTAC

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK (IMechE)

IAHR

International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS)

International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)

Japan Association for Wind Engineering (JAWE)

Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (JSFM)

Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME)

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)

 

Wind Tunnels and Test Facilities

Advanced Technologies Inc. (Wind Tunnel Models)

Aerolab

Aero Systems Engineering

The Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory (UWO)

CALSPAN

Engineering Laboratory Design (ELD) Inc.

German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW)

Java Virtual Wind Tunnel (MIT)

Kirsten Wind Tunnel (UWAL)

Long Win (wind tunnels and instrumentation)

MIT Towing Tank (Dept. of Ocean Eng.)

NASA Wind Tunnels - History

NRC IAR Aerodynamics Laboratory

Oceanic Consulting (Towing Tanks)

Rolling Hills Research Corporation

RWDI

SATA - Subsonic Aerodynamic Testing Association

STAI - Supersonic Tunnel Association, International

Trimodels Inc. (Wind Tunnel Models)

University of Saskatchewan Low-Speed Wind Tunnel

University of Saskatchewan Towing Tank

Wind Tunnel Sites (NASA list)

 

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