
562      Index   
Boundary conditions 
 dynamic, 534 
  free surface, 85–87 
 inviscid flow, 115–129 
  for a magnetic field, 532–535 
  no-slip, 177, 336, 341, 472, 474 
  for temperature, 292, 353–355 
  for velocity, 301, 302, 324, 331, 335, 
337, 375, 411 
Boundary layer equations, 343, 344 
Boundary layer flow, 177, 178, 340–364 
Boundary layer separation, 350–353 
Boundary layers on a flat plate, 177, 178, 
340–350, 475–477 
Boundary layer thickness, 341, 346,  
360, 476 
Bounding vortex, 155 
Boussinesq approximation, 295–297 
Brinkman number, 294 
Broad-crested weir, 137–140, 175, 176 
Brownian 
 motion, 498, 511 
  relaxation time, 502, 504–506, 515 
  rotational diffusion, 501 
Buckingham theorem, 196 
Buffer layer, 372 
Bulk modulus, 228 
Bulk viscosity coefficient, 280 
Buoyant force, 80, 82, 100–105,  
312, 524 
 
C 
 
Camber line, 154 
Capillary viscometer, 437 
Carrier liquid, 498, 502 
Cartesian coordinates, 11, 23, 82 
Cauchy 
  equation of motion, 46, 50, 52, 73, 407, 
410, 413, 431, 438, 473, 507 
  strain tensor, 23, 464 
  theorem (stress), 26–30, 37, 38 
Cauchy-Riemann conditions, 118 
Cavitation 
  critical, 206, 207, 217, 219 
 number, 206 
  in turbo-machines, 203–207 
Cayley-Hamilton theorem, 464 
Center 
 of buoyancy, 101 
  of pressure, 79, 96–100 
Centrifugal force, 85 
Centrifugal pump, 86, 211–213, 218, 219 
Centripetal acceleration, 18, 74 
Centroid, 78–80, 98 
Characteristic equation, 37 
Characteristic length, 290, 291, 350,  
369, 488 
Characteristic scale of velocity, 368, 488 
Choked flow, 238–241, 262, 266 
Chord 
 length, 155 
 line, 155 
Circulation, 119, 155 
Circumferential velocity, 129 
Coefficients 
 contraction, 134 
 correction, 132 
 pyromagnetic, 501 
  of surface tension, 87, 534–537 
  of thermal expansion, 60, 292, 529 
Colloidal suspension, 497 
Complex 
  modulus, 424–427, 440 
 potential, 118 
 velocity, 118 
 viscosity, 426 
Compressibility, 131, 135, 225 
Compressibility factor, 132, 255 
Compressible flow, 131, 225 
Compression, 249 
Concentric cylinders (spheres), 299–306, 
412, 414 
Conduction (Heat), 61, 527 
Cone and plate rheometer, 428–430 
Configuration parameter (of turbulent 
flow), 374  
Conformal mapping, 119, 160 
Conservation 
  of (linear) momentum, 44–47,  
63, 64, 507 
  of angular momentum, 47–52, 507, 
510–513 
  of energy, 52–56, 508 
  of mass, 43, 44, 62, 63, 507 
Constant of anisotropy, 502