Course Objectives

The course will provide students with insight into, and understanding of, fluid mechanics. Students will learn to calculate flow functions in an industrial context. The course will also provide students with basic knowledge to enable them to use computer tools related to the subject.

Course Description

The course includes a description of the characteristics of fluids, fluid statics and buoyancy, Bernoulli’s equation with loss and source point, mass, impulse and energy equations, dimensions analysis and uniformity, pressure on the surroundings from fluid in motion, interface, rotating machinery, compressible flow and gas dynamics. The course also includes the use of computer software for solving technological flow problems. Laboratory exercises relating to pressure loss in pipes and pumps is also part of the subject.

Learning Methods

Lectures, exercises, laboratory exercises and use of relevant computer software.

Assessment Methods

The exercises using Fluent are obligatory, and must be approved before students will be permitted to take the final examination. The exercises will be carried out in groups of 3-5 students. The groups will submit a report for each Fluent exercise (which must be approved).

Laboratory exercises are obligatory and must be approved before students will be permitted to take the final examination. The laboratory exercises are carried out in groups of 3-5 students. The groups will submit a report for each of the exercises, which must be approved.

Written individual mid-term examination (20%).

Written individual final examination (80%).

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean