CVE371 INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS
| Course Code: |
3640371 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
5.0 |
| Department: |
Civil Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Assist.Prof.Dr HASAN ZAÝFOÐLU |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
| Prerequisite: |
Set 1: 3640221
|
| The course set above should be completed before taking
CVE371 INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS . |
Course Content
Definitions, physical properties. Hydrostatics, forces on plane and curved surfaces, buoyancy, hydrostatics in moving and rotating containers. Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions, derivatives, rate of deformation, flowlines. System and control volume approach, Reynolds transport theorem, principles of conservation of mass, momentum and energy, Bernoulli equation. Dimensional analysis, Buckingham pi theorem, similitude.
