Thermofluid Learn

Fluid Properties

Flow of Two Fluids Between Three Plates

Pressure Difference Between the Inside and the Outside of a Liquid Droplet

Capillary Rise in a Tube

Fluid Statics

Hydrostatic Force on a Plane Surface

Slope of Constant-Pressure Lines (Isobars) for Rigid-Body Linear Motion

Constant-Pressure Surfaces in a Liquid Undergoing Rigid-Body Rotation

Hydrostatic Pressure in a Liquid Undergoing Rigid-Body Rotation

Elementary Fluid Dynamics (Bernoulli Equation)

Velocity Measurement by the Pitot-Static Tube

Velocity Measurement by the Venturi Meter

Flow in a Variable-Area Pipe

Siphon and Cavitation, Energy Grade Line, and Hydraulic Grade Line

Finite Control Volume Analysis

Change in Water Jet Flow Direction by a Stationary Vane

Ex 5.10 Change in Water Jet Flow Direction by a Stationary Vane

Change in Water Jet Flow Direction by a Stationary Vane

Change in Water Jet Flow Direction by a Moving Vane

Ex 5.17 Change in Water Jet Flow Direction by a Moving Vane

Change in Water Jet Flow Direction by a Moving Vane

Conservation of mass: relative velocity

Sprinkler Mass Conservation and Relative Velocity

Mass conservation of water flow through a rotating sprinkler

Moment-of-momentum: torque

Rotating Sprinkler Torque

Moment-of-momentum and resisting torque

Differential Analysis

Uniform Flow

Velocity potential and stream function

Source and sink

Source and Sink

Radial potential flow

Source in a uniform stream

Source in a Uniform Stream: Half-Body

Superposed source and uniform flow

Viscous Flow in Pipes

Parallel Plates

Steady, Laminar, Viscous, Incompressible Flow in Between Fixed Parallel Plates

Coming soon

Circular tubes

Steady, Laminar, Viscous, Incompressible Flow in Circular Tubes

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Entrance length

Entrance Length

Coming soon

Inclined circular tubes

Steady, Laminar, Viscous, Incompressible Flow in Inclined Circular Tubes

Coming soon

Pipes

Reynolds Number of Viscous Flow in Pipes

Coming soon

Darcy Friction Factor (Moody Chart)

Flow over Immersed Bodies

Reynolds number of viscous external flow over a flat plate

Reynolds number of viscous external flow over a flat plate

Prandtl-Blasius Boundary Layer Solution

Prandtl-Blasius Boundary Layer Solution

Terminal Velocity of Small Spherical Particles

Terminal Velocity of Small Spherical Particles

Open-Channel Flow

Wave speed

Wave Speed

Coming soon

Froude Number

Froude Number

Coming soon

Specific Energy and Multiple Possible States

Specific Energy and Multiple Possible States

Coming soon

Manning Equation

Manning Equation

Hydraulic Jump

Compressible Flow

Sound Speed of Ideal Gases

Mach Number of the Isentropic Flow of an Ideal Gas with Constant Specific Heat

Ratio of Static Properties / Stagnation Properties of the Isentropic Flow of an Ideal Gas with Constant cp and cv

How to use

Pick a course tab, use the left outline to jump to a topic, then click a card to open a simulation. Change one control at a time and watch the plots & equations update together.

Feedback & Ideas

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About this project

Built by Aarav Shah (UIUC ME ’26) under the guidance of Prof. Tang. Ongoing effort to create interactive teaching tools for fluids & thermal sciences. Tech: JavaScript/D3, HTML, CSS. Questions or ideas? Email me.