ME 251 — Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
BSc BSc Mechanical Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Objectives Understand the characteristics/ properties of Fluids Have good knowledge of fluid static Static Pressure in fluid Manometers Hydrostatic forces Buoyancy and Floatation 3. Appreciation the importance of dimensions and dimensional analysis in problem solving. Content Characteristics of fluids: Properties of fluids; Density or mass density, Viscosity; Types of fluids; Thermodynamic properties; Compressibility; Surface tension and capillarity. Fluid Statics: Pressure variation in a fluid at rest; Absolute, gauge, atmospheric and vacuum pressures; Measurement of pressure: manometers, mechanical gauges; Thermodynamics properties; Hydrostatic forces on submerged Surfaces; Buoyancy and floatation. Kinematics of Fluid Flow: Methods of describing fluid Motion; Types of fluid flow; Rate of flow or discharge; Continuity equation; Velocity and acceleration. Ideal fluid flow: Velocity potential function and stream function. Introduction to dimensional analysis: Secondary or derived quantities, dimensional homogeneity, methods of dimensional analysis: Reyleigh's method, Buckingham's pie theorem, method of selecting repeating variables, procedure for solving problems by Buckingham's pie theorem. Mode of Delivery The mode of delivery of this course will be blended i.e., in person and online Reading Materials Cengel Y.A. and Cimbala J.M (2006) Fluid Mechaics: Fundamentals and Application, McGraw-Hill Companies Inc Cengel, Y. A., & Turner, R. A. (2001). Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Crowe, C., & Elger, D. (2009). Engineering Fluid Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Fox, R. W., McDonald, A. T., & Pritchard, P. J. (2004). Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (Sixth Edition ed.). Bogota: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. NAKAYAMA, Y. (2000). Introduction to Fluid Mechanics. Tokyo: Yokendo Co. Ltd. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Year Two
- Semester
- Semester One
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