For your MQP project you are asked to study fluid (wind) flow over the tall cylinder shaped smokestack near Boynton Hall on the WPI canmpus. Cylinders (or smokestacks) in a fluid flow shed rotating fluid (vortices) at some shedding frequency f (in rad/sec) which is the dependent variable in this problem. Other important physical parameters include the fluid density p, the cylinder diameter d, and the oncoming wind speed V. Use p, V and d as repeating variables. There is one important physical parameter missing from my physical description. Name it.

For your MQP project you are asked to study fluid (wind) flow over the tall cylinder shaped smokestack near Boynton Hall on the WPI canmpus. Cylinders (or smokestacks) in a fluid flow shed rotating fluid (vortices) at some shedding frequency f (in rad/sec) which is the dependent variable in this problem. Other important physical parameters include the fluid density p, the cylinder diameter d, and the oncoming wind speed V. Use p, V and d as repeating variables. There is one important physical parameter missing from my physical description. Name it.

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Chapter5: Analysis Of Convection Heat Transfer

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