Fluid mechanics II
BM BN
4.5 points * 39 lecture hours, 26 laboratory/tutorial hours * Second semester * Gippsland * Prerequisites: GEG2743
(1) Dynamics of ideal fluid flow, potential flow, irrotational flow, circulation and certicity, stream function and velocity potential, sources, sinks, vortices. Combinations of basic flow patterns. (2) Boundary layer equations. Laminar and turbulent boundary layers on a flat plate. (3) Lift and drag. Extension of earlier work to considerations of a finite wing. Application to turbine and fan blades, propellers and wind turbines. (4) Compressible flow. Treatment of compressible flow in pipes with friction and transfer of heat. Analysis of flow with shock waves. (5) Transient flow in pipes, pressure transient theory, water hammer, surge tank. (6) Turbulence. The physics of turbulence, examples of turbulent flow, atmospheric turbulence, measurement techniques.
Assessment
Examination: 25% * Assignments: 75%
Prescribed texts
Douglas J F and others Fluid mechanics 2nd edn, Longman