Synopses & Reviews
The first release of
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics broke new ground by providing a cross-platform, interactive, visual resource of use and appeal to students and professional alike. By helping users to visualise the enormous complexity of fluid flows, it complemented traditional mathematical treatments and enabled users literally to get a picture of the phenomenon in question. This new issue takes advantage of developments in technology to broaden the appeal by including, on one disk, versions in English, Spanish and French.
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics allows students to:
- gain insight into and develop intuition about fluid flows
- access experimental demonstrations that are difficult to reproduce economically in a laboratory
- see the mathematical relationships brought to life by video footage
- conduct simulations to show how flows change when parameters are varied
- access material in English, French or Spanish at the click of a button
It also includes:
- videos that demonstrate fluid mechanical phenomena
- animations of important principles and concepts
- virtual laboratories
- interactive demonstrations
Review
"...a superb rendition of some of the most important concepts in fluid mechanics...an excellent study-companion." Applied Mechanics Reviews"...a new and powerful teaching aid." Journal of Fluid Mechanics"...represents excellent value. It should be snapped up immediately by university lecturers, students and school physics departments." Mathematical Gazette
Review
"Homsy and his colleagues have now provided us with a new and powerful teaching aid...This CD is an ambitious project, and, in my view, it has been accomplished with remarkable success...I have no doubt that this CD-ROM should be regarded as a 'set text' for viscous fluid mechanics courses at the undergraduate or starting graduate levels." Journal of Fluid Mechanics"It is impossible to do justice in a short review to the range of video clips available...A student could learn a lot from browsing through the material on his or her own PC... Overall I liked the CD very much indeed, and at the price it represents excellent value. It should be snapped up immediately by university lecturers, students and school Physics departments." Mathematical Gazette"...a very useful addition to standard fluid mechanics courses for undergraduate students." Zentralblatt fur Mathematik
Synopsis
This multi-media product is intended to provide an interactive tool for teaching undergraduate fluid mechanics for students in engineering and the basic sciences.
Synopsis
Multimedia teaching tool for undergraduate fluid mechanics courses.
Synopsis
This multi-media product is intended to provide an interactive tool for teaching undergraduate fluid mechanics for students in engineering and the basic sciences. Funded by the National Science Foundation and written and prepared by an international group of experts, this CD-ROM includes experiments that demonstrate fluid mechanical phenomena, animations of important principles and concepts, virtual laboratories in which students acquire data from the images, interactive computational exercises in which parameters may be varied, and other descriptive and illuminating material on applications. The coverage is at the level of the Navier-Stokes Equations, but much of the material is accessible to lower level courses as well. The material is conveyed in an attractive and interactive way, with descriptive and developmental text accompanying all the videos and animations. The product is intended to complement any of the standard text books and uses notation and definitions that are standardized to the maximum extent possible. The material may be accessed randomly through a hyperlinked text, a search engine, a video library, and a glossary of terms.
Synopsis
This CD-ROM provides an interactive teaching tool for undergraduate fluid mechanics. It includes experiments demonstrating fluid mechanical phenomena, animations of principles and concepts, virtual laboratories, interactive exercises, and descriptive and illuminating material on applications. The material may be accessed through a hyperlinked text, a search engine, and a video library.