Credits: 3
Principles of fluid mechanics. Mass, momentum and energy conservation. Hydrostatics. Control volume analysis. Internal and external flow. Boundary layers. Modern measurement techniques. Computer analysis. Laboratory experiments.
Description
Prerequisite: ENES232 and ENES221.
Credit only granted for: BIOE331, ENCE305, ENFP300, or ENME331.
Semesters Offered
Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021Learning Objectives
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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.
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Expand your ability to apply mathematics and physics to engineering problems involving fluid mechanics. This is strongly emphasized through lectures and homework.
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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.
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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.
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Enhance your skills related to teamwork through the semester project which is performed in groups of 3 to 5 students.
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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.
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Enhance your ability to work with modern engineering measurement equipment through the performance of 4 laboratory assignments.
Topics Covered
- 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
Learning Outcomes
- 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
Additional Course Information
Textbook
Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics w/ WileyPlus access by Munson, Young and Okiishi, 7th Ed., J. Wiley, 2013.
Class/Laboratory Schedule
- Two 50 minute lectures and one 110 minute studio session each week