Fluid Mechanics was never my strong suit. It has also been 10 years since I took fluid mechanics at university.
Can anyone recommend a good online source to freshen up? In particular, I’m interested in better understanding the sizing of water pipe with feed branches.
I do understand the basics, but again, it’s been a lot of years, and frankly, I just was never good with the subject. It’s actually kinda weird how this subject, as well as electricity in Physics, have both proved very difficult for my mind to grasp. It’s almost like a deep routed mental block is in place that makes me loathe and avoid the subject!
Anyway, I’m about to sit down with my old fluid mechanics text book and start pulling the cobwebs from my brain. If anyone can recommend online material that’ll be helpful, that’d be great as well.
PS: My Google and Bing searches have not been helpful, which lately is often the case.
Engineering Toolbox is kind of the go-to site for practical engineering questions. If you want to learn or review fundamentals at a college level, the MIT Open Courseware is frequently excellent, even if some of the presentations are somewhat dated. If you want to self-study the material and actually master application, picking up an REA Problem Solver or Schaum’s Outlines is recommended over relying on stanrd textbook problem sets; even though you may have to cope with different notation.
However, pipe sizing is usually set by building codes; you don’t generally go back and calculate the pressure head from first principles unless you are doing something exotic. There is no need to reinvent the wheel if you are working with standard residential or light commercial plumbing.