Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer

Section I Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Demonstrations 1. Determining the Net Positive Suction Head of a Magnetic Drive Pump 2. Bernoulli Balance Experiments Using a Venturi 3. Force Produced by Impingement of a Fluid Jet on a Deflector 4. Applying the Bernoulli Balance to Determine Flow and Permanent Pressure Loss 5. A Simple Sharp-Edged Orifice Demonstration 6. Depressurization of an Air Tank 7. Draining an Upper Tank into a Lower Tank: Experimental and Modeling Studies 8. Determining the Pump Curve and the Efficiency for a Bomba BP-50 Regenerative Centrifugal Pump Section II Heat Transfer Experiments and Demonstrations 9. Thermal Conductivity and Radiative Experiments Measurement 10. Free Convection Heat Transfer from Plates 11. Forced Convection Heat Transfer by Air Flowing over the Top Surface of a Horizontal Plate 12. Laminar Forced Convection Inside a Coiled Copper Tube 13. An Experimental Testing of Turbulent Forced Convection Inside Tubes 14. Forced Convection through an Annulus 15. Experimental Investigation and Modeling Studies of the Transient Cooling of a Brass Rod Subjected to Forced Convection of Room Air 16. Solar Flux and Absorptivity Measurements 17. A Transient Experiment to Determine the Heat Transfer Characteristics of a 100 W Incandescent Light Bulb, Operating at 48 W 18. Experimental Determination of a Room Heat Transfer Coefficient by Transient Cooling of a Mercury-in-Glass Thermometer 19. Experimental Determination and Modeling of the Temperature Distribution Along a Hollow Fin