
Index      569 
Power 
 coefficient, 197 
  law fluid, 401–403, 412–414, 444, 445 
  law profile, 329, 330, 387, 409 
Prandtl 
  boundary layer equation, 343 
  number, 294, 360, 378, 382, 388 
 relation, 250 
  universal law of friction, 327 
Pressure, 29 
  (loss) coefficient, 142–146, 197, 321 
  drop (loss), 145, 325, 409, 436 
 dynamic, 130 
  at elbow channel, 140, 141, 145 
 equation, 124 
  function, 122, 152, 233 
  head, 124, 185, 192 
  jump, 523, 525, 532–535 
 recovery (factor), 144 
 stagnation, 130 
  total, 124, 322 
 vessel, 106 
Principal axes (of stress), 37, 38 
Principal stress, 280 
Principle of Archimedes, 82 
Principle of frame invariance, 19, 20 
Product of surface area (inertia), 79 
Profile development region, 320, 321 
Propeller, 142, 146 
 efficiency, 147–149 
Pseudoplastic fluids, 401 
Pseudovector, 14, 16, 33, 49, 128,  
509, 513 
Pump 
  efficiency, 194, 195 
 head, 185 
Pumps 
  axial flow, 182, 183 
  mixed flow, 182, 183, 213 
  performance curve, 198, 199 
  radial flow, 181 
Pyromagnetic coefficient, 501, 530 
 
Q 
 
Quasi-linear, 457 
Quasi-stationary, 497, 507, 516, 521 
 
R 
 
Rabinowitsch 
 correction, 444 
 equation, 443 
 procedure, 441–445 
Radial flow pumps, 183, 188 
Rankine-Hugoniot relationship, 248, 252 
Rankine ovoid (oval), 173, 174 
Rate of 
  deformation tensor, 10, 34 
  heat transfer, 264, 265, 267 
  strain tensor, 11, 280, 381, 406, 456, 
478–483 
Rayleigh line (curve), 241–246, 264–270 
Rayleigh number, 297, 298, 527–532 
Rayleigh-Plesset equation, 149–152 
Reaction turbine, 208 
Rectilinear acceleration, 18 
Relative 
 acceleration, 74, 85 
  strain tensors, 23, 453, 478–483 
 velocity, 74 
Relaxation 
 model, 505 
 modulus, 454 
  time, 448–457, 502, 505, 506 
Retardation time, 452, 453 
Retarded elasticity, 452 
Reversible, 228 
Reynolds 
 decomposition, 365 
  equation for lubrication, 307 
  equation for turbulent flow, 368 
  number, 289, 302, 312, 408, 412, 415 
  stress, 367, 368, 372 
Reynolds’ analogy, 361, 362, 381–385 
Reynolds’ transport theorem, 23–26, 35, 
36, 45, 48, 65, 68, 128 
Rheometric flow, 418, 419, 424–427 
Rheopectic fluid, Rheopexy, 404 
Rigid body rotation, 16, 82 
Rosensweig equation, 516–519 
Rotating 
 blade, 140–142 
  containers, 85, 108 
  cylinders, 119, 299–306, 415