I-6 Index
Hydrometer, 90, video V2.8
Hydrostatic force:
on curved surfaces, 66, video V2.5
on plane surfaces, 57, video V2.4
Hydrostatic pressure distribution, 42
Hypersonic flow, 591
Ideal fluid, 281
Ideal gas flow, 580, video V11.1
Ideal gas law, 12, 580, video V11.1
Ideal head rise, 656
Impeller, 653
Impulse turbine, 673, 674, video V12.4
Inclined tube manometer, 54
Incompressible flow, 99, 271
Incompressible fluid, 20, 42, 99, video V1.7
Induced drag, 515
Inertial control volume, 200
Infinitesimal control volume, 263
Inlet guide vane, 687
Intensity of turbulence, 402
Intensive property, 166
Internal energy, 223, 580
Inviscid core, 282, 388
Inviscid flow, 94, 264, 279
fluid, 279
Irreversible flow, 240
Irrotational flow, 130, 268, 281, video V3.6,
video V6.4
Irrotational vortex, 291
Isentropic flow, 127, 242, 584
with area change, 593
basic equations for, 593
in converging–diverging nozzle, 594, video V11.6
in converging nozzle, 594
effect of area variation on, 593
graph for calculations of, 721
ideal gas, 592
reference condition for, 595, 597
Isentropic process, 21, 584
Isentropic stagnation properties, 596
Isothermal:
atmosphere, 46
process, 21
Jet exit pressure, 110
Joule, 7
Jump, hydraulic, 556, 634, video V10.11,
V10.12
Kaplan turbine, 682
Kármán vortex trail, 349, 501, video V4.12, video
V6.15, video V9.8
Kilogram, 7
Kinematics of fluid flow, 147, 264
Kinematic similarity, 356
Kinematic viscosity, 20
of air, 717, 718
of common gases, 14, 715
of common liquids, 12
of water, 716
Kinetic energy, 103, 223
coefficient, 236
Kutta–Joukowski law, 305
Lagrangian description of flow, 150, video V4.4,
video V4.5
Laminar boundary layer:
Blasius solution, 476, 477
description of, 468, video V9.3
effect of pressure gradient, 488
flat plate:
approximate solution, 492
exact solution, 476, 477
friction coefficient for, 482
thickness of, 472, video V9.3
Laminar flow, 152, video V4.7
between parallel plates, 309
in an annulus, 316
in a boundary layer, 471
past a cylinder, 491
past a sphere, 500
in a pipe, 313, 385, 390, video V6.13, video V8.2
Laplace’s equation, 284
Laplacian operator, 284
Lapse rate, 48
Law of the wall, 406
Length scale, 358
Lift, 302, 463, 509
rotating cylinder, 304
Lift coefficient, 466, 510
airfoil, 514
rotating cylinder or sphere, 520
Lift/drag polar diagram, 516
Lift/drag ratio, 516
Linear deformation, 264
Linear momentum, see Newton’s second law
of motion
Linear momentum equation, 200, 213, 285
Linear momentum flow, 201, video V5.4,
video V5.5, video V5.6, video V5.8, video V5.9
Local acceleration, 159
Local derivative, 159
Local friction coefficient, 481
Logarithmic velocity profile, 406
Loss, 230
Loss, major and minor, see Head loss
Loss coefficient, 415
Low Reynolds number flow, 466, 498, video V1.3,
video V7.7, video V8.4
Mach, E., 28, 349
Mach cone, 590, video V1.8, video V11.2,
video V11.3
Mach cone angle, 590
Mach number, 23, 347, 349, 585
Mach wave, 590, 635, video V1.8, video V11.2,
video V11.6
Magnus, H., 520
Magnus effect, 305, 520
Major loss, see Head loss, 410
Manning, R., 28, 548
Manning coefficient, 549
values of, 549
Manning equation, 549
Manometer, 50
differential, 52
inclined tube, 54
micro, 81
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