Stavros Tavoularis is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa and has served as Department Chair and Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests include turbulence structure and diffusion, vortical flows, aerodynamics, biofluid dynamics, nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and experimental methods. Professor Tavoularis is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, as well as the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. He is a recipient of the George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research.
Part I. General Concepts: 1. Flow properties and basic principles
2. Measuring systems
3. Measurement uncertainty
4. Signal conditioning, discretization, and analysis
5. Background for optical experimentation
6. Fluid mechanical apparatus
7. Towards a sound experiment
Part II. Measurement Techniques: 8. Measurement of flow pressure
9. Measurement of flow rate
10. Flow visualization techniques
11. Measurement of local flow velocity
12. Measurement of temperature
13. Measurement of composition
14. Measurement of wall shear stress
15. Outlook.
