Fluid and Thermal Dynamics Answer Bank for Engineers: The Concise Guide with Formulas and Principles for Students and Professionals

Ethirajan Rathakrishnan

Mar 2023 · BrownWalker Press

About this ebook

This book provides the essence of aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, experimental methods, gas dynamics, high enthalpy gas dynamics, helicopter aerodynamics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics, describing the underlying principles of these subjects before listing the set of multiple choice questions of each subject, which will prove to be useful for engineering students to comfortably face and win in the competitive examinations for engineering studies, engineering services, civil services, doctoral Degree program entrance and so on. This book will also be of value for those facing job interviews for academic positions in universities and research organizations or laboratories.

Ratings and reviews

The book serves a useful handy guide to students of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics in multiple programs from mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical and process engineering. It is one stop handbook of widely used terms and their definitions. This kind of book is very useful not only for students, but also for general engineering audience, industry people, policy makers, reviewers (who would like to look for immediate source of knowledge in domain), students preparing for various exams and interviews.

About the author

Ethirajan Rathakrishnan is professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He is well known internationally for his research in the area of high-speed jets. The limit for the passive control of jets, called the Rathakrishnan Limit, is his contribution to the field of jet research, and the concept of breathing blunt nose (BBN), which simultaneously reduces the positive pressure at the nose and increases the low pressure at the base is his contribution to drag reduction at hypersonic speeds. Positioning the twin-vortex Reynolds number at around 5000, by changing the geometry from cylinder, for which the maximum limit for the Reynolds number for positioning the twin vortex was found to be around 160, by von Karman, to flat plate, is his addition to vortex flow theory.