enme331: | Department of Mechanical Engineering

Credits:

Develop an ability to solve basic and fundamental problems such as the force distribution on a dam, pump size required to move water though a practical pipe network, engine power required to keep a car moving forward at a specified velocity, and wind speed required to test a model car in a wind tunnel.
Expand your ability to apply mathematics and physics to engineering problems involving fluid mechanics. This is strongly emphasized through lectures and homework.
Expand your ability to conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data through performing the planned laboratories and writing the lab reports. Analysis of experimental error is emphasized.
Enhance your ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems through your participation in the problem-based team project this semester. This problem involves the design of scaled model experiments of a complex full-scale engineering device.
Enhance your skills related to teamwork through the semester project which is performed in groups of 3 to 5 students.
Enhance your ability to learn new material on your own through the problem-based learning aspects of the semester project. In this work, you will learn about an area of fluid mechanics by library research with your group.
Enhance your ability to work with modern engineering measurement equipment through the performance of 4 laboratory assignments.

Week 1: Properties of fluid, rate of strain and stress
Week 2: Fluid kinematics, Eluerian vs Lagrangian perspective, Material derivative and fluid acceleration, streamlines, streaklines and pathlines
Week 3: Generalized Equation of Motion: fluid deformation and conservation of mass, forces on a fluid element, the Navier-Stokes equation
Week 4: Fluid Statics: hydrostatics, manometry, forces on a flat plate
Week 5: Fluid Statics: forces on a curved plate, buoyancy
Week 6: Inviscid Flow: Euler’s equation along a streamline and normal to a streamline
Week 7: Inviscid Flow: Bernoulli’s equation, examples (pitot tubes, cavitation, free surface flows) and limitations of equation
Week 8: Control Volume Analysis: Reynolds Transport Theorem, Continuity equation
Week 9: Control Volume Analysis: Conservation of Momentum
Week 10: Control Volume Analysis: Conservation of Energy
Week 11: Viscous Flow and exact solutions of Navier Stokes equations
Week 12: Pipe Flow: laminar vs turbulent flow
Week 13: Pipe Flow: Major and minor losses, pipe network
Week 14: External Flow: definition of lift and drag, boundary layers
Week 15: External Flow: boundary layers and common features of blunt and streamlined objects

an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
an ability to communicate effectively
a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics w/ WileyPlus access by Munson, Young and Okiishi, 7th Ed., J. Wiley, 2013.