ASE244 FLUID MECHANICS
| Course Code: |
3840244 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
4(4-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
Aerospace Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Spring Semesters. |
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.
