411-203 Fluid Mechanics

431-202 Engineering Analysis B or 620-232 Mathematical Methods

The content of this subject is as follows: manometry; derivation of the continuity equation, mechanical energy balance; friction losses in a straight pipe, fanning friction factor, treatment of roughness, valves and fittings; simple network problems; principles of open channel flow; compressible flow - thermodynamic preliminaries, propagation of a pressure wave, isothermal and adiabatic flow equations in a pipe, choked flow; pumps - pump characteristics, centrifugal pumps, derivation of theoretical head; head losses leading to the actual pump head curve, calculating system head, determining the operating point of a pumping system, throttling for flow control, cavitation and NPSH, introduction to positive displacement pumps; stirred tanks - radial, axial and tangential flow; types of agitators, vortex elimination, the standard tank configuration, power number and power curve, dynamic and geometric similarity in scale-up; multi-dimensional fluid flow - Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, momentum flux, development of multi-dimensional equations of continuity and for momentum transfer, application to tube flow, Couette flow, Stokes flow etc., solutions for creeping flow, turbulence, universal velocity profile.

One written 3-hour end-of-semester examination (90%); two laboratory reports (10%) of up to 2000 words or 3-5 pages each, not including diagrams, graphs and raw data, each due two weeks after the corresponding laboratory session.