In this course, the students will:
- be acquainted with the fundamentals of fluid mechanics,
- analyze the pressure field across a fluid region under static conditions or in solid body motion,
- learn the Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches in the analysis of fluid motion,
- tell key properties that may be obtained from fluid kinematic analysis, and obtain the equations for various flow lines corresponding to a given velocity field,
- understand the deformations that a fluid particle undergoes during its motion,
- learn the Reynolds transport theorem, and apply it to conservation of mass, momentum and energy,
- learn about the integral and differential approaches for the application of the conservation equations in a flow field,
- appreciate the simplifications of the integral forms of the conservation equations for one-dimensional flow situations, and apply these equations to analyze engineering problems such as pipe flows, channel flows, flow through pumps, etc.,
- perform estimation of the aerodynamic drag of a body embedded in a given flow field for which flow properties are given only at the boundaries of this field,
- derive the differential forms of the conservation equations for viscous fluid motion in the form of the Navier-Stokes equations,
- carry out the differential analysis for simple flow situations (such as steady, laminar flow through pipes, or between parallel plates) and relate the pressure loss to the velocity distributions, as well as determine the wall shear stresses.