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.
