This section covers lectures 12-13.
Readings
Textbooks
Reading in: Panton, Ronald L. Incompressible Flow. 4th ed. Wiley, 2013. ISBN: 9781118013434. [Preview with Google Books]
- Chapter 8: Dimensional Analysis
Reading in: Kundu, Pijush K., and Ira M. Cohen. Fluid Mechanics. 6th ed. Academic Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780124059351.
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.11: Dimensional Analysis
- Chapter 4: Conservation Laws
- 4.11: Dimensionless Forms of the Equations and Dynamic Similarity
Reading in: Fay, James A. Introduction to Fluid Mechanics. MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780262061650. [Preview with Google Books]
- Chapter 10: Dimensional Analysis and Modelling
Additional Readings
- Rayleigh, Lord. "The Principle of Similitude." (PDF) Nature 95, no. 66 (1915): 591.
Class Notes
- The Physical Basis of Dimensional Analysis (PDF)
- Similarity (PDF)
- The Buckingham Pi Theorem in Dimensional Analysis (PDF)