Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

This is a resource page for the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory course at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The syllabus, and the procedures for the laboratory experiments themselves, are given on UTC Learn. This is supplementary material to explain some of the concepts and to be an informational source for the students, i.e., perhaps to reduce time with the search engine.

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Figure 9: Computing GM From the Height of the Metacentre Above the Centre of Buoyancy
Figure 4 Displacement
Figure 6: Centre of Gravity of a Ship
Figure 5 Showing the Transverse Movements of an Easy-Rolling Vessel Among Waves, and Also of a Raft
Figure 7 Center of Buoyancy of Box-Shaped Vessel
Figure 8 Vessel Floating Upright (left,) and Inclined 14 Degrees (right)
Plot of the Froude Number before the jump (Fr1) and after (Fr2)
Davis D-1, NC-857N. Note that the photo was taken with the wheels behind the chocks and the engine running. Chet was a dealer for these planes.
With World War II over, it was time to move up, and move up Chet did with the Courier, his largest yacht, 53′ long. It was built by Grebe, and the Grebes were Chet’s personal friends. Chet bought the yacht from Arnold Horween, who, after a brief career in the NFL, owned Horween Leather in Chicago. Grebe built and sold the yacht to Horween in 1939 as the Rusty II. My thanks to Donald P. Kusterer who furnished much of the information about the Courier.