Fluid Mechanics(Engineering Mechanics II)

Engineering Mechanics II

 

Course Highlights

This course features a complete set of Prof. Madsen's hand-written lecture notes, and exams and assignments that were prepared by the instructor and teaching assistant David Gonzalez-Rodriguez.

Course Description

This subject provides an introduction to fluid mechanics. Students are introduced to and become familiar with all relevant physical properties and fundamental laws governing the behavior of fluids and learn how to solve a variety of problems of interest to civil and environmental engineers. While there is a chance to put skills from calculus and differential equations to use in this subject, the emphasis is on physical understanding of why a fluid behaves the way it does. The aim is to make the students think as a fluid. In addition to relating a working knowledge of fluid mechanics, the subject prepares students for higher-level subjects in fluid dynamics.

Lecture Notes

This section contains documents created from scanned original files, which are inaccessible to screen reader software. A "#" symbol is used to denote such documents.

SES #	TOPICS
L1	Subject Outline, Fluid Concepts, The Continuum Hypothesis (PDF)#
L2	Description of Fluid Flow, Conservation Laws (PDF - 1.0 MB)#
L3	Hydrostatics, Forces on Plane and Curved Surfaces (PDF - 1.1 MB)#
L4	Manometry, Stability of Dams and Gates (PDF - 2.0 MB)#
L5	Mass and Volume Conservation (PDF)#
L6	Stream Function, Velocity Potential, Flownet Construction (PDF - 2.0 MB)#
L7	The Bernoulli Equation for Ideal Fluids (PDF)#
L8	Application of Mass Conservation and Bernoulli (PDF)#
L9	Conservation Laws for Finite Control Volumes, Reynolds Transport Theorem (PDF)#
L10	Conservation of Momentum for Finite Control Volumes (PDF)#
L11	Applications of Momentum (PDF)#
L12	The Bernoulli Equation from Energy Considerations (PDF)#
L13	Special Forms and Interpretations of the Bernoulli Equation (PDF - 1.1 MB)#
L14	Laminar Flow, Shear Stresses in Fluids (PDF - 1.0 MB)#
L15	Velocity Distribution in Laminar Flows, Turbulence, The Reynolds Number (PDF)#
L16	Pipe Friction Losses, Moody Diagram, Minor Losses (PDF - 1.2 MB)#
L17	Pipe Flow Analysis (PDF)#
L18	Pump Specification and Requirements (PDF - 1.2 MB)#
L19	Turbines and Windmills (PDF)#
L20	Drag Forces on Immersed Bodies (PDF - 1.6 MB)#
L21	Lift Forces on Immersed Bodies (PDF - 1.4 MB)#
L22	Fluid Mechanics of Pitching
L23	Uniform Open Channel Flow (PDF - 1.0 MB)#
L24	Uniform Open Channel Flow Computations (PDF)#
L25	Bernoulli Principle in Open Channel Flow, Specific Head-Depth Diagram (PDF)#
L26	Application of Specific Head in Open Channel Flow, Super- and Sub-critical Flows (PDF - 1.0 MB)#
L27	Momentum Principle in Open Channel Flow (PDF)#
L28	Application of Momentum Principle in Open Channel Flow (PDF - 1.2 MB)#
L29	Gradually Varied Open Channel Flow (PDF - 1.1 MB)#
L30	Gradually Varied Flow Profiles (PDF - 2.3 MB)#
L31	Discharge From Lakes and Under Gates (PDF - 1.3 MB)#
L32	Further Examples of Gradually Varied Flow (PDF - 1.7 MB)#
L33	Unsteady Flow in Open Channels, Kinematic Waves (PDF - 1.3 MB)#
L34	Flood Routing (PDF - 1.2 MB)#
L35-L36	Differential Analysis of Fluid Flow, Navier-Stokes Equations (PDF - 1.8 MB)#