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Fluid Mechanics
Prof. Shih-Chi Chen
Tel: 3943 4136
Office: ERB 307

https://elearn.cuhk.edu.hk/

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Message from Dean

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Student/Faculty Mutual Expectations


PROPOSED AGREEMENT
A. PREAMBLE
The Engineering Faculty of CUHK believes that it is important to
continually strive for an atmosphere of mutual respect,
acknowledgement, and responsibility between faculty members
and the student body. Therefore, the CUHK Engineering
community strives here to enumerate the specific expectations
of each side. However, this document is not intended to be
either comprehensive or limiting in regards to the
Universitystatutes. In the end, simple respect for knowledge,
hard work, and cordial interactions will help build the
environment we seek. Therefore, we remain committed to the
ideals of CUHK Engineering, agree to abide by these principles in
our time here, and will encourage each other to uphold these
responsibilities.

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B. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
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a positive, respectful, and engaged academic environment inside and outside the
classroom;
to attend classes at regularly scheduled times without undue variations, and to
receive before term-end adequate make-ups of classes that are canceled due to
leave of absence of the instructor;
to receive a syllabus which should include an outline of the course objectives,
entire course content and schedule, evaluation criteria, and any other
requirements for successful completion of each course on the first day of class
and to be clearly informed of any changes made to the syllabus during the
semester with reasonable time to adjust to these changes;
to consult with concerned faculty members and course tutors outside of usual
classroom times through regularly scheduled office hours or a mutually
convenient appointment;
to have reasonable access to University facilities and equipment in order to
complete course assignments and/or objectives;
to have access to guidelines on Universitys definition of academic misconduct
within any course;
to have reasonable access to grading instruments and/or grading criteria for
individual assignments, projects, or exams and to review graded material in a
timely fashion;
to consult with each courses faculty member regarding the petition process for
graded coursework.

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C. FACULTY EXPECTATIONS
1.
2.
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7.

8.
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a positive, respectful, and engaged academic environment inside and outside the
classroom;
students to appear for class meetings in a timely fashion;
to select qualified course tutors in consultation with Department Chairmen as
well as the right to delegate grading, laboratory instruction, tutoring, and other
academic activities to these individuals;
students to appear at office hours or a mutually convenient appointment for
official matters of academic concern;
full attendance at examination, midterms, presentations, and laboratories, with
the exception of formal pre-approved excused absences or emergency situations;
students to be prepared for class, appearing with appropriate materials and
having completed assigned readings and homework;
full engagement within the classroom, including meaningful focus during lectures,
appropriate and relevant questions, and class participation (for instance,
engagement in conversation or phone-calls not related to the lecture topic at
hand should be avoided);
to cancel class due to emergency situations and to cover missed material during
subsequent class meetings;
students to act with integrity and honesty.

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Syllabus

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Textbooks
Fluid Mechanics 9th Edition, Robert Fox, Wiley, 2015
Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Nakayama, Yokendo
Co. LTD, 1998.

Fluid Mechanics 4th Edition, Frank M. White, 2006

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Tutors & tutorial sessions


Liang Zhuojian ERB 217
Wang Zengyue ERB 302
Zheng Wangbin ERB 301

34228 zjliang@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
34233 zywang@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
38042 wbzheng@mae.cuhk.edu.hk

Office hours: Every Tuesday 3-5pm (ERB 307)

Tutorial hours survey and scheduling


Time: TBD
Location: TBA

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Why study engineering?


Intellectual development
Smarter!

Challenge
Throughout your study and career
Real world problems are open-ended

Creativity
Most jobs dont allow you to be creative!

Entrepreneurship
Be your own boss!
Think about Google, Apple

Discovery
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Why is studying fluid mechanics important?


Broad engineering applications

Agilent lab-on-a-chip cartridge

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Resources available
CUHK Library

Internet:

Google / Google scholar / Google patent


Wolfram Alpha
Howstuffworks.com
Youtube
Wikipedia (Can I use Wiki as a reference?)

Fluid websites
iFluids (http://web.mit.edu/fluids-modules/www/)
Films(http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf.html)
MIT OCW
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Fluid mechanics Navier-Stokes Equations




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Fluid
Fluids are divided into liquids and gases.
A liquid is hard to compress and as in the ancient saying Water
takes the shape of the vessel containing it, it changes its shape
according to the shape of its container with an upper free
surface.
Gas on the other hand is easy to compress, and fully expands to
fill its container. There is thus no free surface. Consequently, an
important characteristic of a fluid from the viewpoint of fluid
mechanics is its compressibility.
Another characteristic is its viscosity. Whereas a solid shows its
elasticity in tension, compression or shearing stress, a fluid does
so only for compression. In other words, a fluid increases its
pressure against compression, trying to retain its original
volume. This characteristic is called compressibility.
Furthermore, a fluid shows resistance whenever two layers slide
over each other. This characteristic is called viscosity.
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Fluid
In general, liquids are called incompressible fluids and gases
compressible fluids.
Nevertheless, for liquids, compressibility must be taken into account
whenever they are highly pressurized, and for gases compressibility
may be disregarded whenever the change in pressure is small.
Meanwhile, a non-existent, assumed fluid without either viscosity or
compressibility is called an ideal fluid or perfect fluid.

Blood?
Blood is complicated. In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells
suspended in a liquid called blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes
55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains
dissipated proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide
(plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation),
platelets and blood cells themselves.

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Basic properties
Units
SI units (metric system): There are seven fundamental SI units, namely:
meter (m) for length, kilogram (kg) for mass, second (s) for time, ampere
(A) for electric current, kelvin (K) for thermodynamic temperature, mole
(mol) for mass quantity and candela (cd) for intensity of light. Derived
units consist of these units.

Basic fluid properties for quantitative description


Density ()
Viscosity ()
Conductivity (k)

[kg/m3]
[Pa*s ]
[W/mK]

Heat capacity (C = )

[J/K]

Diffusivity ( = )

[m2/s]

[Pa]
[K]
[m3]
[kg]

Pressure (P)
Temperature (T)
Volume (V)
Mass (m)

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Dimension

All physical quantities are expressed in combinations of base units. The index number of the
combination of base units expressing a certain physical quantity is called the dimension, as
follows. In the absolute system of units the length, mass and time are respectively expressed
by L, M and T. Put Q as a certain physical quantity and c as a proportional constant, and
assume that they are expressed as follows:

=
where , , and are respectively called the dimensions of Q for L, M, T.

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Density, specific gravity and specific volume

The mass per unit volume of material is called the density, which is generally
expressed by the symbol . The density of a gas changes according to the pressure,
but that of a liquid may be considered unchangeable in general. The units of
density are kg/m3 (SI). The density of water at 4C and 1 atm (101 325 Pa, standard
atmospheric pressure) is 1000 kg/m3. The ratio of the density of a material to the
density of water w , is called the specific gravity, which is expressed by the symbol
s:
s = /w

The reciprocal of density, i.e. the volume per unit mass, is called the specific
volume, which is generally expressed by the symbol v:
v = 1/

(m3/kg)

Density of water and air under standard atmospheric pressure

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Viscosity

As shown below, suppose that liquid fills the space between two parallel plates of area A
each and gap h, the lower plate is fixed, and force F is needed to move the upper plate in
parallel at velocity U. Whenever Uh/v < 1500 (v = /: kinematic viscosity), laminar flow is
maintained, and a linear velocity distribution, as shown in the figure, is obtained. Such a
parallel flow of uniform velocity gradient is called the Couette flow.
In this case, the force per unit area necessary for moving the plate, i.e. the shearing stress
(Pa), is proportional to U and inversely proportional to h. Using a proportional constant , it
can be expressed as follows:

The proportional constant is called the viscosity, the coefficient of viscosity or the dynamic
viscosity.

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Viscosity
A flow where the velocity u in the x direction changes in the y direction is
called shear flow. The left figure shows the case where the fluid in the gap
is not flowing. However, the velocity distribution in the case where the
fluid is flowing is as shown in the right figure. Extending equation to such a
flow, the shear stress on the section dy, distance y from the solid wall, is
given by the following equation:

This relation was found by Newton through experiment, and is called


Newton's law of viscosity.

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Viscosity as a function of temperature


At 1 atm
Why?

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Viscosity
In the case of gases, increased temperature makes the molecular
movement more vigorous and increases molecular mixing so that the
viscosity increases. In the case of a liquid, as its temperature increases
molecules separate from each other, decreasing the attraction between
them, and so the viscosity decreases. The relation between the
temperature and the viscosity is thus reversed for gas and for liquid.
The units of viscosity are Pa-s (pascal second) in SI, and g/(cm s) in the CGS
absolute system of units. 1 g/(cm s) in the absolute system of units is
called 1 P (poise) (since Poiseuilles law, is utilized for measuring the
viscosity, the unit is named after him), while its 1/100th part is 1 cP
(centipoise). Thus
1 P = 100 cP = 0.1 Pa s

The value (Nu) obtained by dividing viscosity by density is called the


kinematic viscosity or the coefficient of kinematic viscosity:

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Rheological diagram
Newtonian fluid vs. Non-Newtonian fluid
Water vs. blood

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Surface tension
The surface of a liquid is apt to shrink, and its free surface is in
such a state where each section pulls another as if an elastic
film is being stretched.
The tensile strength per unit length of assumed section on the
free surface is called the surface tension. Surface tensions of
various kinds of liquid are given in the table below

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Review of vector calculus

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Review of vector calculus

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Review of vector calculus

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Mass conservation

There are two methods for studying the movement of flow. One is a method which
follows any arbitrary particle with its kaleidoscopic changes in velocity and
acceleration. This is called the Lagrangian method. The other is a method by
which, rather than following any particular fluid particle, changes in velocity and
pressure are studied at fixed positions in space x, y, z and at time t. This method is
called the Eulerian method. Nowadays the latter method is more common and
effective in most cases.

Lagrangian description: Following a particle


Define a particle:

( ) =

=0

Eulerian description: Inspecting a fixed point in space


= ,

+ = 0

Shapiro Video: Eulerian and Lagrangian Descriptions in Fluid Mechanics


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdN8OOkx2ko

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Mass conservation
How to derive

+ = 0?

Approach 1: Integration

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Mass conservation
How to derive

+ = 0?

Approach 2: Differential analysis Consider a infinitesimal cube


(mass change rate inside the cube) + (total mass flow going out) = 0
= , , ,
= + +

Mass change rate inside the cube:

Consider X direction:
Mass flux on the left side (inlet)

Mass flux on the right side (outlet)

Flux rate of flow of a property per unit area


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Mass conservation
Consider all three directions

(mass change rate inside the cube) + (total mass flow going out) = 0

Divide the equation by dxdydz, we have


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Streamline and stream tube


A curve formed by the velocity vectors of each fluid particle at a certain
time is called a streamline. In other words, the curve where the tangent at
each point indicates the direction of fluid at that point is a streamline.
Floating aluminium powder on the surface of flowing water and then
taking a photograph, gives the flow trace of the powder as shown below.
A streamline is obtained by drawing a curve following this flow trace. From
the definition of a streamline, since the velocity vector has no normal
component, there is no flow which crosses the streamline.

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Steady flow and unsteady flow


A flow whose flow state expressed by velocity, pressure,
density, etc., at any position, does not change with time, is
called a steady flow.

=0

A flow whose flow state does change with time is called an


unsteady flow. Whenever water runs out of a tap while the
handle is being turned, the flow is an unsteady flow. On the
other hand, when water runs out while the handle is
stationary, leaving the opening constant, the flow is steady.

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3-D, 2-D, and 1-D flow


All general flows such as a ball flying in the air and a flow around a moving
automobile have velocity components in x, y and z directions. They are
called three-dimensional flows. Expressing the velocity components in the
x, y and z axial directions as u, v and w, then
= , , ,
= , , ,
= , , ,

Consider water running between two parallel plates cross-cut vertically to


the plates and parallel to the flow. If the flow states are the same on all
planes parallel to the cut plane, the flow is called a two-dimensional flow
Expressing the velocity components in the x and y directions as u and u
respectively, then
= , ,
= , ,

For one dimensional flow; consider water flowing in a tube in terms of


average velocity, then the flow has a velocity component in the x direction
only.
= ,

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Laminar and turbulent flow


Laminar flow, sometimes known as streamline flow, occurs when a
fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers.
At low velocities the fluid tends to flow without lateral mixing, and
adjacent layers slide past one another like playing cards. There are
no cross currents perpendicular to the direction of flow, nor eddies
or swirls of fluids.
In laminar flow the motion of the particles of fluid is very orderly with all
particles moving in straight lines parallel to the pipe walls. In fluid
dynamics, laminar flow is a flow regime characterized by high momentum
diffusion and low momentum convection.

Turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by chaotic and


stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum
diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of
pressure and velocity in space and time.
Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman described turbulence as "the most
important unsolved problem of classical physics."
Flow in which the kinetic energy dies out due to the action of fluid
molecular viscosity is called laminar flow.
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Laminar and turbulent flow examples


Faucet

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Long pipes

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Osborne Reynolds experiment


Reynolds conducted many experiments using glass tubes of 7, 9, 15 and 27
mm diameter and water temperatures from 4 to 44C. He discovered that
a laminar flow turns to a turbulent flow when the value of the
nondimensional quantity vd/ reaches a certain amount whatever the
values of the average velocity v, glass tube diameter d, water density
and water viscosity . Later, to commemorate Reynolds achievement,
=

( is kinematic viscosity)

was called the Reynolds number. In particular, whenever the velocity is


the critical velocity vc, Re, = vcd/ is called the critical Reynolds number.
The value of Re, is much affected by the turbulence existing in the fluid
coming into the tube, but the Reynolds number at which the flow remains
laminar, however agitated the tank water, is called the lower critical
Reynolds number. This value is said to be 2320 by Schiller. Whenever the
experiment is made with calm tank water, Rec, turns out to have a large
value, whose upper limit is called the higher critical Reynolds number.
Ekman obtained a value of 5 x 104 for it .

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