Fluid Mechanics

Catalog description

Fundamental fluid statics: manometry, forces on submerged surfaces, Archimedes’ principle. Details of one-dimensional incompressible flow: conservation laws and application to flowing systems, cavitation, impulse momentum problems, vanes. Pipe flows: laminar analyses, turbulent flows with emphasis on calculation of fluid properties. One dimensional compressible flow: conservation laws, specialization to isentropic situations, nature of speed of sound. Applications including effects of area change, converging-diverging nozzles, choking phenomena, normal shock waves.