This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the principles of hydraulics and pneumatics. The main objective is to provide a clear understanding of the concepts underlying hydraulics and pneumatics. Solved question papers and numerical examples are given to aid understanding. The book will be useful for students and engineers in mechanical, production, automobile, and mechatronics engineering who wish to understand hydraulics and pneumatics technology. The key features of the text include pre...
Hydrodynamic Design and Assessment of Water and Wastewater Treatment Units
by Edmilson Costa Teixeira and William Bonino Rauen
Water and wastewater treatment normally take place in a series of continuous flow units, each designed to perform a step of the intended purification process - typically involving coagulation or flocculation, sedimentation or filtration, and disinfection. The flow pattern governs the residence/contact time, turbulence levels, collisions and shear to which different fluid portions are subjected in their passage through the unit. The efficiency of a given unit depends as much on the relevant physi...
Fluid Machinery for the Oil, Petrochemical and Related Industries
This unique volume presents the scientific progress, state-of-art technology, and thrust areas to be focused in electrorheology (ER) and magentorheology (MR). In the last couple of years, this area produced significant impacts on automobile industry, bridge and building construction, aerospace industry, and defense industry. Recent innovation in this area lead to new technology, which has great impact on energy production and energy conservation. This book includes all papers presented at the 12...
Computational Methods in Water Resources, Part 1 (Developments in Water Science)
The XV International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR XV) was held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 13-17 June 2004. The conference was sponsored by the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This two-volume set represents the reviewed and edited proceedings of this meeting, including 156 papers. In addition, many posters were presented at the meeting, which are not included in thi...