Flow Control - Passive, Active, and Reactive Flow Management

A thorough treatment of the basics of flow control and flow control practices.

List of contents

Preface; Nomenclature; 1. Introduction; 2. Governing equations; 3. Unifying principles; 4. Coherent structures; 5. Reynolds number effects; 6. Transition control; 7. Compliant coatings; 8. Separation control; 9. Low-Reynolds-number aerodynamics; 10. Drag reduction; 11. Mixing enhancement; 12. Noise reduction; 13. Microelectromechanical systems; 14. Frontiers of flow control; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Mohamed Gad-el-Hak is currently the Inez Caudill Eminent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Academy of Mechanics. In 1998, Professor Gad-el-Hak was named the Fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Germany's highest research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars in all disciplines. In 2002, he was named ASME Distinguished Lecturer, as well as inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.

Summary

A thorough treatment of the basics of flow control and control practices that can be used to produce desired effects. Among topics covered are transition delay, separation prevention, drag reduction, lift augmentation, turbulence suppression, noise abatement, and heat and mass transfer enhancement. The final chapter explores the frontiers of flow control strategies.

Product details

• Authors: Mohamed Gad-El-Hak, Gad-el-Hak Mohamed
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2000
• EAN: 9780521770064
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77006-4
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 255 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1090 g
• Illustrations: 103 b/w illus. 8 colour illus., Zeichnungen, nicht spezifiziert, Raster, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Fluids, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace & aviation technology, Aerospace and aviation technology, Engineering: Mechanics of fluids, Flow, turbulence, rheology