Ebook: Handbook of Hydraulic Resistance. Coefficients of Local Resistance and of Friction

In English. Translated from Russian by A. Barouch, M. Sc. Edited by D. Grunaer, P. E. and IPST Staff. — Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1966. — 517 p.
(Spravochnik po gidravlicheskim soprotivleniyam. Koeffitsienty rnestnykh soprotivlenii i soprotivleniya treniya. — Moskva-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Energeticheskoe Izdatel'stvo, 1960. Справочник по гидравлическим сопротивлениям. Рус.: Коэффициенты местных сопротивлений и сопротивления трения. — Москва-Ленинград: Государственное Энергетическое Издательство, 1960.)Published for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations.This handbook contains data on the friction coefficients of straight pipes and channels and the coefficients of fluid resistance of fittings. throttles, obstructions, elements of hydraulic or gas-air lines, and several devices used in industrial systems for gas purification, heat exct ange, and ventilation.
The handbook is divided into twelve sections. The first section contains general informationon hydraulics and mechanics of fluids. The other sections are each devoted to a definite group of fittings or other elements of pipes and obstructions with similar conditions of fluid motion, and contain data on their fluid resistances. Each of these sections is divided into descriptive material and separate diagrams for practical calculations, each of which corresponds to a certain element of the pipe or obstruction. In most instances these diagrams contain formulas for calculating the resistance coefficient of the element as a function of its main characteristics, a graphical representation of this functional relationship, and tables of the values of the resistance coefficients.
This handbook is intended for a wide range of specialists: scientists, designing and operating engineers of all branches of hydroengineering, and students of universities and technical institutes.