Applied Fluid Mechanics

At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. identify the various types of fluids and flows; 2. carry out simple calculations on floating and submerged surfaces; 3. explain the concept of fluid machinery for prototype development; 4. explain concepts of boundary layer; 5. explain and derive the Navier–Stokes equation for conservation of momentum and conservation of mass for Newtonian fluids; 6. describe machines that transfer energy between a rotors and a fluids; 7. identify pump types performed by simple pump selection, including both turbines and compressors; and 8. perform simple CDD grid processing, calculations and result processing.

Unsteady flow; oscillation in U-tube; surge tank; water hammer. Open-channel flows. Introductory concepts of boundary layer and re-circulating flows, mathematical derivation of Navier-stokes equations and its application. Dimensional analysis and similitude. Introduction to turbo machinery; characteristic curve for axial-flow and centrifugal pumps, fans, blowers, impulse and reaction turbines. Pump selection and application. Pipeline systems (Series and Parallel). Open channel flow. Overview of computational fluid dynamics (CFD)