ASE244 FLUID MECHANICS
Course Content
Introduction. definition and physical properties of fluids. concept of continuum.. definitions of density. pressure and viscosity. Kinematics. motion of a fluid element. rotation. deformation. flowlines. Fluid statics and buoyancy. Forces acting on flat and curved surfaces. Eulerian and Lagrangian flow descriptions. conservation laws. flow properties. system-control volume approaches. Reynolds Transport theorem. Governing equations: conservation of mass. linear momentum and energy equations. Bernoulli equation and its applications. Flow of real fluids: Newtonian fluids. Navier- Stokes equations. Application for incompressible flows. laminar - turbulent flow definitions. and application to pipe flows.
