OCE 3030 / OCN 3430 FLUID MECHANICS

Note: this class is being taught by Dr. Steven Jachec in 2007

 

SYLLABUS – Fall 2006

 

Dr. Stephen Wood, Link 212, x7244,

swood@fit.edu, http://my.fit.edu/~swood

 

 

 Text: Engineering   Fluid Mechanics 8th   edition 

 

Week 1

  1. Introduction. Units. Properties.
  2. Properties. Viscosity. Pressure
  3. Pressure variation with elevation

 

Week 2

  1. Pressure variation (cont.).
  2. Pressure variation with elevation for compressible fluids. Manometry.
  3. Hydrostatic force on plane surfaces.

 

Week 3

  1. Labor Day Holiday
  2. Buoyancy. Archimedes Principle.
  3. Buoyancy (cont.).

 

Week 4

  1. Stability.
  2. Fluid in motion. Velocity. Lagrangian and Eulerian approach. Flow visualization.
  3. Volume rate of flow (discharge)

 

Week 5

  1. The control-volume equation
  2. Continuity equation.
  3. Test #1

 

Week 6

  1. Continuity equation (examples). Continuity at a point.
  2. Rotation and Vorticity. Euler equation.
  3. Bernoulli equation.

 

Week 7

  1. Bernoulli equation – applications.
  2. Bernoulli equation – non-dimensional form. Pressure distribution.
  3. Momentum equation.

 

Week 8

  1. Day-off. Students day.
  2. Momentum equation (cont.).
  3. Moment of momentum equation. Energy equation. Navier-Stokes equation.

 

Week 9

  1. Dimensional analysis.
  2. Dimensional analysis (cont.)
  3. Similitude

 

Week 10

  1. Reynolds Law of Similitude.
  2. Froude Law of Similitude
  3. Prediction of prototype characteristics based on model data

 

Week 11

  1. Test #2.
  2. Surface friction. Laminar boundary layer
  3. Laminar B.L. (cont.).

 

Week 12

  1. Turbulent B.L.
  2. Turbulent B.L. (cont.).
  3. Veteran’s Day Holiday.

 

Week 13

  1. Laminar flow in pipes.
  2. Turbulent flow in pipes.
  3. Losses due to fittings.

 

Week 14

  1. Effect of pumps in the system.
  2. Thanksgiving break
  3. Thanksgiving break

 

Week 15

  1. Drag.
  2. Drag (cont.) Vortex shedding. Terminal velocity
  3. Lift.

 

Week 16

  1. Lift (cont.).
  2. Review. Course evaluation
  3. Study day

 

Week 17 – Final Exam (?? ?? am- ?? am)

This file was last updated : July 03, 2007.  For more information contact Dr. Stephen Wood