Mechanics of Fluids

• Course Outline
• Section 1001 –2:00-2:50 PM
   
• Handouts
• Historical and Introductory Concepts
• Brief history of fluid mechanics
• Disciplines and subdisciplines associated with fluid mechanics
• Particular engineering interests
• Ideal problem solving strategies
• Examples on using the control volume approach
• Course notebook
• Course logbook
• Related video titles
• Expanding websites
• Flow visualization techniques
• Flow classfication
    
• Contributors
• Archimedes (c.287 BC-c. 212 BC)
• Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
• René Descartes (1596-1650)
• Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)
• Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662)
• Brook Taylor (1685-1731)
• George Hadley (1685-1768)
• Henri Pitot (1695-1771)
• Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782)
• Ján Andrej Segner (1704-1777)
• Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) (see also)
• Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)
• Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813)
• Giovanni Venturi (1746-1822)
• Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
• Gaspard de Prony (1755-1839)
• George Cayley (1773-1857)
• Claude-Louis Navier (1785-1836)
• Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788-1867)
• Isaac Newton (1792-1727) (see also)
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792-1843)
• Gotthilf Hagen (1797-1884)
• Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille  (1799-1869)
• Heinrich Magnus (1802-1870)
• Benoît Fourneron (1802-1867)
• Henry Darcy (1803-1858)
• Uriah Boyden (1804-1879)
• Julius Weisbach (1806-1871)
• William Froude (1810-1879)
• James Francis (1815-1892)
• Robert Manning (1816-1897)
• C.H.D. Buys Ballot (1817-1890)
• William Ferrel (1817-1891)
• George Stokes (1819-1903)
• Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821–1894)
• William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907)
• Lester Pelton (1829-1908)
• Osbourne Reynolds (1842-1912)
• Nikolai Zhukovsky (1847-1921)
• Martin Kutta (1867-1944)
• Paul Blasius (1873-1970)
• Viktor Kaplan (1876-1934)
• G. I. Taylor (1886-1975)
• Lewis Richardson (1881-1953)
• Harald Sverdrup (1888-1957)
• Carl-Gustav Rossby (1898-1957)
• George Batchelor (1920-2000)
• John Ockendon (c. 1941-present)
• Blaise Pascal and René Descartes
• Other contributors
   
• Related Terms
   
• Useful Summaries
• Basic terms
• Hydrostatic relations, centroids, and area moments of inertia
• Centroids for several common shapes
• Centroids for 4 shapes
• Properties of common fluids
• Properties of water and air
• Extended Moody chart
• Moody chart
• Some loss coefficients
   
• Navier-Stokes Equations
• Cartesian coordinates (Summary)
• Cartesian coordinates (2D)
• Cartesian coordinates (3D)
• Cylindrical coordinates (Summary)
• Cylindrical coordinates (2D)
• Cylindrical coordinates (3D)
      
• Pipe Flow Problem Solving Strategies
• Classical
• Advanced
• TI computer programs
   
• Dimensional Analysis
  • Procedure and parameters

• Homework Assignments
• 1.  Kinematics
• 2.  Hydrostatics
• 3.  Streamline Analysis
• 4.  Integral Analysis
• 5.  Differential Analysis
• 6.  Pipe Flow Analysis
• 7.  Dimensional Analysis