Flow Regimes

Resources

• Miscellaneous
  • An experimental investigation of the circumstances which determine whether the motion of water shall be direct or sinuous, and of the law of resistance in parallel channels. Osborne Reynolds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 174 (1883): 935–982.
  • Bicycle Aerodynamics, efluids.com
  • Life at Low Reynolds Number. E.M. Purcell. American Journal of Physics. Vol. 45. (1977): 3–11.
    • Original at the American Institute of Physics
    • Copy at the University of California, Irvine
• Video on demand
  • Brady Haran
    • Reynolds Number. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2009). Wind blowing over volcanoes, planes flying through air, and Jupiter's Great Red Spot. A Reynolds Number plays a role in all of them.