ME231, ME231A: Fluid Mechanics

December 2014 - April 2015

Lecture-wise breakup (tentative)

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Date

Topic
Week#01: Fluid Statics, CH02

Dec 29 Preliminaries, Pressure, Pascals law, manometer, example

Forces on a submerged surface
Reading assignment: Continuum concept, Definition of fluid, Viscosity, Units
and dimensions:: CH01

31 Review of reading assignment, problem solving

Reading assignment: Rigid body motion:: CH02

Jan 02 Review of reading assignment, buoyancy and stability, example

Reading assignment: to be supplied
HW#1: Fluid statics
Week#02: Kinematics, CH01, CH03

05 Lagrangian vs Eulerian description, system vs. control volume, partial vs. total
(material derivative), velocity and acceleration fields, steady vs. unsteady flow
Reading assignment: Reynolds Transport Theorem:: CH03

07 Flow visualization: stream-, streak-, path-, and time-line , Reynolds Transport

Theorem
Reading assignment: to be supplied

09 Rotational vs. irrotational flow, decomposition of motion, deformation and

strain-rate, vorticity, stream function
Reading assignment: to be supplied
HW#2: Kinematics
Week#03: Integral analysis, CH03

12 Integral analysis: mass and momentum conservation, example

Reading assignment: Energy conservation

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14 Non-inertial frame, examples and problem solving, energy conservation

Reading assignment: pipe flow

16 Integral analysis: application to pipe flow, turbo machines

Reading assignment: Turbo machines
HW#3: Integral analysis
Week#04: Differential analysis, CH04

10

19 Mass, momentum conservation

Reading assignment: Navier-Stokes Equation:: any book

11

21 Newtonian fluid, Navier-Stokes Equation

Reading assignment: to be supplied

12

23 Exact solution: Couette flow, Poiseuille flow

Reading assignment: PDE solution via separation of variable from any maths
book, notes on creeping flow
Week#05: Differential analysis, CH04

13

28 Hagen-Poiseuille flow, friction factor, hydraulic diameter

Reading assignment: to be supplied
HW#4: Differential analysis

14

30 Stokes first and second problems

Reading assignment: Buckingham Pi theorem:: CH05
Week#06: Dimensional analysis, CH05

15

Feb 02 Scales and dimensions, Pi theorem, example

Reading assignment: to be supplied

16

04 Equation nondimenionalization, similitude

Reading assignment: to be supplied

17

06 Equation nondimenionalization, similitude, problem solving

HW#5: Dimensional analysis

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Reading assignment: complex variable from any mathematics book

Week#07: Potential flow, CH08
18

09 Quiz#1

19

11 Formulation, mathematical formalism, complex variable

Reading assignment: to be supplied

20

13 Analysis of elementary potential flow structures

Reading assignment: to be supplied
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Week#8: Mid- Semester Examination

Week#09: Potential flow, CH08

21

23 Method of superposition for complex problems

Reading assignment: to be supplied

22

25 Flow past a cylinder

Reading assignment: to be supplied

23

27 Flow over an aerofoil

HW#6: Potential Flow
Reading assignment: notes on boundary layer theory

Feb 28 - Mar 08

Week#10: Mid-semester Recess

Week#11: Boundary layer, CH07

24

Mar 09 Prandtls boundary layer approximation from scale analysis, displacement and
momentum thickness
Reading assignment: to be supplied

25

11 Integral solution over a flat plate, entry length in a duct

Reading assignment: to be supplied

26

13 Integral solution for non-zero pressure gradient flow

Reading assignment: notes on flow past a cylinder
Week#12: Boundary layer, CH07

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16 Separation, flow past a cylinder

Reading assignment: to be supplied

28

18 Integral solution for flow past a cylinder

Reading assignment: to be supplied

29

20 Lift drag, skin friction; connection with the potential flow

HW#7: Boundary layer
Reading assignment: notes on turbulent flow
Week#13: Turbulent Flow, CH06

30

23 Reynolds decomposition, Reynolds stresses, cross-correlation, Boussinesq

approximation, closure problem

31

25 Turbulent boundary layer and pipe flow

32

27 Jets, wakes, mixing layer

HW#8: Turbulent flow
Reading assignment: CH06 up to 6.6
Week#14: Engineering applications: internal/external flows, CH06, CH07

33
34

30 Moodys chart, pipe flow, piping network

Apr 01 Flow past bluff bodies, aerofoil; sports ball aerodynamics
HW#9: Pipe flow
Reading assignment: notes on compressible flow
Week#15: Compressible flow, CH09

35

06 Compressible vs incompressible flow, one-dimensional isentropic flow

36

08 Normal and oblique shocks

37

10 Pradtl-Mayer expansion
HW#10: Compressible flows
Quiz#2
Week#16: Miscellaneous topics

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13 Engineering applications: problem solving and discussion

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15 Engineering applications: problem solving and discussion

40

17 Makeup exam

Text: Fluid Mechanics, F. M. White, 7th Ed., Tata McGraw-Hill, 2011