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Spring 2015
Dr. Kelly Kibler
Course content
Basic concepts of Fluid
Mechanics; Fluid properties
Fluid properties
Week
1
2
Fluid statics
Fluid kinematics
Energy
6, 7
Momentum
8, 10
Dimensional analysis
12
Internal flow
13
Differential flow
14
15
Basic concepts of
fluid mechanics
Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Lecture 1
January 12, 2015
Dr. Kelly Kibler
INTRODUCTION- fluids
INTRODUCTION- fluids
Phases of matter
Solids
Liquids
Gases
10
Boundary
layer
velocity
Due to the no-slip condition, at a solidfluid interface, the velocity of the fluid
and the solid must be equal. If the solid
is stationary, velocity of the fluid is
equal to zero.
11
Boundary
layer
Laminar
sublayer
velocity
Due to the no-slip condition, at a solidfluid interface, the velocity of the fluid
and the solid must be equal. If the solid
is stationary, velocity of the fluid is
equal to zero.
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13
14
At a solid-fluid interface, a
viscous flow region
develops very close to the
surface. This is the
laminar sublayer. The
remainder of the flow is
the inviscid flow region.
Inviscid flow
region
15
External flow
Internal flow
16
17
18
Turbulence is characterized by
Reynolds number (Re, dimensionless)
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20
Change
over time
Variation
in space
21
When a fluid flows over a surface (e.g. enters a pipe), the velocity
profile changes with z for some length until the flow stabilizes such
that velocity is constant with respect to z.
Flow which has stabilized in this way is fully developed.
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23
24
25
Mass in kilograms (kg), length in meters (m), flow in cubic meters per second
(m3s-1)
Dimensional homogeneity
All equations must be dimensionally homogeneous (all terms must
have the same dimensions).
A formula that is dimensionally homogeneous is not necessarily right, but
a formula that is not dimensionally homogeneous is definitely wrong.
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