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Description
The programme examines fluid flows in experimental situations.
The programme examines fluid flows in experimental situations.
| Module code and title: | T231, Introduction to engineering mechanics |
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| Item code: | T231; 12 |
| First transmission date: | 27-07-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:43 |
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| Producer: | Andrew Crilly |
| Contributors: | Paul Minton; Pip Youngman |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Aluminium dust; Drilling rigs; Engineering problems; Fluids; Severn bore; Small flow table |
| Footage description: | Pip Youngman demonstrates the assembly of the Flow Table home experiment apparatus. Paul Minton at the Department of Engineering, Imperial College introduces the programme. Minton, next to a flow table at Imperial College, points out its components and explains how it works. He places a cylinder into the path of the water flow and observes the shape of the flow. An animated sketch is super-imposed over the flow and shows flow patterns. Minton places a T-section model into the water and observes the shape of the flow. An animated sketch, clearly showing flow patterns, is again super-imposed over the water table. Minton briefly discusses wind turbulence around tall buildings. Still shot of a tower block. Minton back at the water table places two teardrop shapes and a cylinder into the water He describes the resulting flow patterns - stationary waves in a moving fluid. Minton uses a ripple tank to create moving waves in still water. Minton, still using a ripple tank, demonstrates the effect of flow on moving waves. He goes on to demonstrate the hydraulic jump phenomenum. Minton sums up using photographs showing flow around real objects - deep sea drilling rig legs, a canoe, a dam spillway. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71438 |
| Production number: | 00525_5112 |
| Videofinder number: | 2228 |
| Available to public: | no |
