Fluid Mechanics

Volume 6, Issue 1, June 2020

  • Quinn’s Law of Fluid Dynamics: Supplement #1 Nikuradze’s Inflection Profile Revisited

    Hubert Michael Quinn

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1, June 2020
    Pages: 1-14
    Received: Jan. 30, 2020
    Accepted: Feb. 11, 2020
    Published: Feb. 18, 2020
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    Abstract: This paper is directed at the important contribution to fluid dynamics made by Johan Nikuradze. His seminal paper published in 1933 represents the gold standard of empty conduit permeability, for the flow of water through roughened pipes, even to this very day. We revisit in some detail the “inflection profile” in Nikuradze’s plot, which appears in... Show More
  • Quinn’s Law of Fluid Dynamics: Supplement #2 Reinventing the Ergun Equation

    Hubert Michael Quinn

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1, June 2020
    Pages: 15-29
    Received: Mar. 17, 2020
    Accepted: May 13, 2020
    Published: Jun. 15, 2020
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    Abstract: This paper is directed at the important contribution to fluid dynamics made by Sebri Ergun. In his three papers published in 1949, 1951 and 1952, using various gases as his percolating fluid, Ergun used his empirical permeability results of packing conduits with fractured coke (irregularly shaped particles), in combination with some theoretical con... Show More