MEC516/BME516 Chapter 3 Control Volume Analysis, Part 1.1: A brief introduction to some of the techniques of flow visualization. Nowadays flow visualization is used for both experimental flows and flows obtained by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Streamlines, Streaklines and Pathlines are discussed for steady and transient flows.

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Course Textbook: F.M. White and H. Xue, Fluid Mechanics, 9th Edition, McGrawHill, New York, 2021.

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