Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics

在这个项目中，我们正在开发、制作、评估和传播一系列互动模块，用于理工科本科生流体力学的教与学。这些模块侧重于基础知识，对化学、机械、石油、航空、土木与环境工程、海洋学、气象学、地球物理、应用数学和应用物理等课程都有影响。主要目标是加强学生在以下方面的学习：(1)解决问题，(2)对复杂流动现象的直觉，(3)知识的保留。这些目标通过提供交互介质中流体流动现象的实验可视化和计算模拟来实现。一套广泛的实验和计算设施已被用于制作视频，模拟和应用程序来演示流体现象。格式、导航和多媒体环境与我们之前在剑桥大学出版社出版的NSF/ du赞助的项目“多媒体流体力学”（MMFM I）中使用的非常相似，但利用了编程环境、数据压缩、数字化和应用软件方面的新技术。在当前的项目（MMFM II）中，我们正在制作关于控制体积平衡、相似性和缩放、界面流动和现象以及湍流等主题的模块。

Engineering - Other (59) In this project we are developing, producing, evaluating and disseminating a series of interactive modules for the teaching and learning of fluid mechanics for undergraduates in science and engineering. The modules focus on fundamentals and have impact across the curricula of Chemical, Mechanical, Petroleum, Aeronautical, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, Meteorology, Geophysics, Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics. The primary objectives are to enhance student learning in the areas of (i) problem solving, (ii) intuition about complex flow phenomena, and (iii) retention of knowledge. These objectives are met by providing experimental visualizations and computational simulations of fluid flow phenomena in an interactive medium. An extensive set of experimental and computational facilities has been used to produce videos, simulations, and applications programs to demonstrate fluid phenomena.The format, navigation, and multimedia environment closely resembles that used in our previous NSF/DUE-sponsored project, Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics (MMFM I), recently published by Cambridge University Press, but takes advantage of new technologies in programming environments, data compression, digitization, and applications software. In the current project (MMFM II) we are producing modules on the topics of Control Volume Balances, Similarity and Scaling, Interfacial Flows and Phenomena, and Turbulence.