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Low Reynolds number flows

Title
Low Reynolds number flows / [presented by] the National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films ; G.I. Taylor ; producer-director, John Friedman ; produced by Educational Services, Incorporated.
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : [Released by] Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., [between 1980 and 1989?], ©1966.

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Moving imageRequest in advance QC155.5 .L6 1985gOff-site

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Additional Authors
  • Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram, 1886-1975.
  • National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films.
  • Educational Services, Inc.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation.
Description
1 videocassette (33 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
Summary
Sir Geoffrey I. Taylor describes and discusses characteristics of the motion of fluids using a variety of models, and demonstrates how in low Reynolds number flows a rough estimate is provided by the Reynolds number scale of the relative importance of inertia and viscosity.
Series Statement
Fluid mechanics films
Uniform Title
Fluid mechanics films.
Subject
  • Reynolds number
  • Fluid dynamics
Note
  • Originally issued as 16 mm. motion picture.
Credits (note)
  • Photographer, Abraham Morochnik ; microcinematographer, Joseph V. Durden ; graphics, R. Paul Larkin ; editor, Jack Hirschfeld.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in other videorecording formats and as motion picture and online.
System Details (note)
  • VHS format.
OCLC
ocm12848628
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries