Page:Aerial Flight - Volume 1 - Aerodynamics - Frederick Lanchester - 1906.djvu/15

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CONTENTS.

Fluid Resistance and its Associated Phenomena.

  • § 1. Introductory.
  • 2. Two Methods.
  • 3. The Newtonian Method.
  • 4. Application of the Newtonian Method in the Case of the Normal Plane.
  • 5. Deficiency of the Newtonian Method. (The Principle of No Momentum.)
  • 6. Illustrations of the Principle of No Momentum.
  • 7. Transmission of Force. Comparison of Fluid and Solid.
  • 8. When the Newtonian Method is Applicable.
  • 9. On Stream-line Form.
  • 10. Froude's Demonstration.
  • 11. The Transference of Energy by a Body.
  • 12. Need for Hydrostatic Pressure. Cayitation.
  • 13. The Motion of the Fluid.
  • 14. A Question of Relative Motion.
  • 15. Displacement of the Fluid.
  • 16. Orbital Motion of the Fluid Particles.
  • 17. Orbital Motion and Displacement. Experimental Demonstration.
  • 18. Orbital Motion. Eankine's Investigation.
  • 19. Bodies of Imperfect Stream-line Form.
  • 20. The Doctrine of Kinetic Discontinuity.
  • 21. Experimental Demonstration of Kinetic Discontinuity.
  • 22. Wake and Counterwake Currents.
  • 23. Stream-line Motion in the Light of the Theory of Discontinuity.
  • 24. Stream-line Foiin in Practice.
  • 25. Stream-line Fonn. Theory and Practice Compared.
  • 26. Mutilation of the Stream-line Form.
  • 27. Mutilation of the Stream-line Form—continued.
  • 28. Stream-line Flow General.
  • 29. Displacement due to Fluid in Motion.
  • 30. Examples Illustrating Effects of Discontinuous Motion.

Viscosity and Skin Friction.

  • § 31. Viscosity. Definition.
  • 32. Viscosity in Relation to Shear.
  • 33. Skin Friction.
  • 34. Skin Friction. Basis of Investigation.