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Content:

This module aims to develop a basic understanding of some advanced topics of fluid mechanics and the ability to apply these topics to the analysis of common engineering systems. It links the broad concepts of fluid mechanics with the practical context that they will experience in industry. Students are provided with a solid basis of fundamental and applied concepts in fluid mechanics in order to develop a comprehensive view of fluid systems that will tackle both traditional problems and novel applications, keeping up with the state of the art and informed by research within the department.

Teaching Delivery:

Lectures will be delivered in the first term. Students will also be involved in a fluid lab where they will be able to measure the lift and drag of a wing and will deliver a report/coursework working in a group of students.

Fluid mechanics content and structure:

• Differential equations of mass and momentum
• Navier-Stokes Equation derivation
• Potential function and stream function theory
• Conformal mapping
• Flow Past a streamlined body (Lift and drag)
• Flow past a bluff body
• Boundary-layer theory
• Flow in Pipes

Module Objectives:

Upon completion of this module students should be able to:

• Understand and be able to work with common applications in fluid mechanics.
• Identify and define the requirements, constraints and design parameters of a project that involves fluid component.
• Generate concepts, exercise critical thinking, implement a methodology to compare ideas and use engineering judgment to choose a viable solution in this context.
• Gain knowledge and apply the design process, mathematics and engineering analysis to the development and creation of integrated engineering solutions within the remit of the course and through the use of combined disciplines or sub-disciplines as required.
• Understand the wide use and importance of mechanics of fluids in their future professional lives.

Recommended readings:

• Differential equations of mass, momentum and energy balances (F.M. White, Chapters 4 and 8) Ìý
  • ÌýNavier-Stokes Equations
  • ÌýPotential flow and stream function
• ÌýFlow Past a BodyÌý(Lift and drag) - (F.M. White, Chapters 7) Ìý
  • Lift and Form & Friction drags
  • Inviscid flow: Theory and experimental data
  • Pressure Gradients: Effects on boundary layer and controlling methods
  • Flow in Pipe (F.M. White, Sections 6.4-6.7)
  • Entry Length and Velocity Profiles: Laminar and turbulent flow.Ìý
  • Flow in Rough Pipes and application of the Moody Diagram.Ìý
• Boundary-layer theory (F.M. White, Sections 7.2-7.4 )
  • ÌýBoundary-Layer Concept
  • ÌýBoundary Layer thicknesses
  • ÌýBoundary Layers with flat Plates and pipes: Laminar and turbulentÌýÌý