Fluidization and Fluid Particle Systems: Recent Research and Development

FLUID MECHANICS: AN INTERACTIVE TEXT

This new interactive CD-ROM from the American Society for Civil Engineers, presents the essential "need-to-know" information for all topics and phenomena associated with the study of fluid mechanics. Fluid Mechanics contains 15 powerful computational tools and 13 data tools on a single CD-ROM, which can be used to tackle the intense engineering calculations that practitioners face with speed and precision. Together these computational utilities and data form a new type of handbook for the professional engineer.

Written in MATLAB, the computational programs feature state.ofthe-art graphical user interfaces, plus a number of "active equations" that calculate solutions to flows in pipes and open channels, compressible flows and fluid machinery, two- and threedimensional plotting, dimensional conversion, and the solution of nonlinear equations. Users will be able to spend more time focusing on a project and less time crunching numbers or being distracted by the tedium of interpolation on tables of functions.

The product's 15 comprehensive chapters include: "Basic Considerations," "Fluid Statics," "Integral Descriptions," "Differential Descriptions," "Dimensional Analysis and Similitude," "Laminar and Turbulent Flows," "Incompressible Pipe Flow," "Potential Flow," "Boundary Layers," "Flow Past Bodies," "Compressible Flows," "Open Channel Flows," and "Fluid Machinery," and "Transport." Computer Requirements:

PC: 486 DX2/66 or faster, Windows 3.1 or Windows95,16 MB RAM, QuickTime for Windows 2.02 (included on the CD), 4X CD-ROM drive, VGA monitor, Pentium with 6X CD-ROM or faster with 640x480 or 800x600 resolution recommended.

Mae: Macintosh IIci or faster, System 7.5 or higher, 16 MB RAM, QuickTime 2.0 extension, 4X CD-ROM drive, Color monitor with 640x480 resolution or better, PowerMac and 6X or faster CDROM drive recommended.

CD-ROM

1998 Pub Z-5

ISBN 0-7844-03104

$100

AIChE Member Rate:$75

[Author Affiliation]

Prepared byJ.A.Liggett and D.A Caughey, Cornell University