Fox and McDonald's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
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Author: Philip J. Pritchard, John W. Mitchell
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Chapter 10, Problem 90P
We have seen many examples in Chapter 7 of replacing working fluids in order to more easily achieve similitude between models and prototypes. Describe the effects of testing an air compressor using helium as the working fluid on the dimensionless and dimensional parameters we have discussed for compressible flow machines.
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