Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Part I Background mechanics
- 1 Particles and continuous materials
- 2 Particle mechanics
- 3 Units
- 4 Basic ideas in fluid mechanics
- 5 Flow in pipes and around objects
- 6 Dimensional analysis
- 7 Solid mechanics and the properties of blood vessel walls
- 8 Oscillations and waves
- 9 An introduction to mass transfer
- Part II Mechanics of the circulation
- Index
- Table I
6 - Dimensional analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Part I Background mechanics
- 1 Particles and continuous materials
- 2 Particle mechanics
- 3 Units
- 4 Basic ideas in fluid mechanics
- 5 Flow in pipes and around objects
- 6 Dimensional analysis
- 7 Solid mechanics and the properties of blood vessel walls
- 8 Oscillations and waves
- 9 An introduction to mass transfer
- Part II Mechanics of the circulation
- Index
- Table I
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- The Mechanics of the Circulation , pp. 80 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011