ME-281 / 6 credits

Teacher: Schneider Tobias

Language: English


Summary

Introduction to fluid mechanics, combining fundamental principles with their application to canonical flow problems.

Content

Fluid properties and characteristic quantities of incompressible flows; fluid statics; fluid kinematics, trajectories, and streamlines; Bernoulli's equation; mass transport, diffusion, and the diffusion equation; Reynolds transport theorem; conservation of mass, momentum, and energy in integral and differential form; viscous stresses and the Newtonian constitutive law; Navier-Stokes equations; analytical solutions for canonical viscous and inviscid flows, including potential flows; dimensional analysis and similarity; flow around immersed bodies, including lift and drag; introduction to boundary-layer concepts.
Throughout the course, governing equations are derived, interpreted, and simplified under clearly stated assumptions, and applied to canonical flow problems to develop physical intuition and a systematic approach to fluid mechanics.

Keywords

Fluid mechanics, incompressible flows, diffusion, conservation laws, Navier-Stokes equations, viscous flows, potential flows, dimensional analysis, similarity, lift and drag, boundary layers

 

Teaching methods

Lectures and sessions of exercises

Assessment methods

Written exam

Supervision

Assistant.e.s Yes

Resources

Bibliography

Andrew L. Gerhart, John I. Hochstein, Philip M. Gerhart, Munson, Young and Okiishi's fundamentals of fluid mechanics : SI version, 9th Edition (2021)
or previous versions including
Gerhart, Gerhart & Hochstein, Munson's Fluid Mechanics, Global Edition, 8th Edition
Munson, Okiishi, Juebsch & Rothmayer, Fluid Mechanics, 7th Edition, SI Version

 

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In the programs

  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Fluid mechanics I : incompressible + TP
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • TP: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: mandatory

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