SabanciUniversity

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

ME307Fluid Dynamics

Course Information, 2008-2009Fall Term

Course is a standard presentation of the subject at the undergraduate level to study motion of fluids and their interaction with solids. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to understand fundamental aspects of fluid mechanics and mechanisms of fluidic devices such as pumps, compressors, flow meters, and pressure measurement devices, and solve certain problems in fluid statics, internal and external flows.

Textbook

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, BR Munson, DF Young, TH Okiishi, Wiley, New York, 2006. (In homer and on reserve.)

Recommended Readings

There are several texts on the subject some of which are available in the library. The following two are the most recommended for the treatment of the subject in this course.

Fluid Mechanics, F.M. White,McGraw-Hill 5th edition, 2003.

Introduction to fluid mechanics, J.A. Fay, MIT Press, 1994.

Lecture slides will be posted on course’s official website:

Grading

Two midterm exams: 25% each

Final exam: 30%

Homework: 10-15%

Attendance: 5-10%

Note: Weights are subject to change at instructors’ discretion within 5% in the calculation of the final score.

Homework Policy

Students may discuss homework assignments, and may even study existing solutions. However, original solutions must be submitted. Similarities in steps, symbols, results, and other details in solutions between two homework, and or between a turned in homework and an existing solution published on the web or elsewhere will result in disciplinary action as cheating. Students must always use good common sense to distinguish between what accounts as cheating and what not.

Schedule

Reading assignments are provided in the last column of the table for guidance in your preparation to lectures and exams.

Week / Date / Subject / Reading
1 / 9.22 / Introduction: Fluid behavior and properties, dimensional homogeneity / 1.1-6
9.24 / Compressibility, surface tension; Mathematical preliminaries / 1.7-9
2 / 9.29-10.1 / HOLIDAY
3 / 10.6 / Fluid Statics: Pressure, pressure measurement, hydrostatic force / 2.1-8
10.8 / Pressure prism, buoyancy and floatation, rigid rotation / 2.9-13
4 / 10.13 / Elementary fluid dynamics: The Bernoulli equation, streamlines, forces on streamlines, stagnation, / 3.1-6
10.15 / Flowrate measurement, examples of the Bernoulli equation. / 3.6-8
5 / 10.20 / Fluid kinematics, streamlines and pathlines / 4.1-4.3
10.22 / Control volume analysis / 4.3-4.5
6 / 10.27 / Conservation of mass and momentum and mechanical energy / 5.1-3
10.29 / NATIONAL HOLIDAY
7 / 11.3 / Conservation of energy (Bernoulli) / 5.3-4
11.5 / MIDTERM I
8 / 11.10 / Differential analysis of fluid flow: Kinematics, Continuity, Conservation of Linear Momentum / 6.1-3
11.12 / Inviscid flow, Potential flows / 6.4-6
9 / 11.17 / Viscous flow, Laminar flows / 6.8-9
11.19 / Laminar flows / 6.8-9
10 / 11.24 / Dimensional analysis, Buckingham-Pi theorem / 7.1-5
11.26 / Dimensionless groups in fluid mechanics / 7.6-10
11 / 12.1 / Viscous pipe flow / 8.1-3
12.3 / Dimensional analysis and losses / 8.4
12 / 12.8-10 / SEMESTER BREAK
13 / 12.15 / Pipe flow examples, flow measurement / 8.5-7
12.17 / General characteristics of external flows, boundary layers / 9.1-3
14 / 12.22 / Drag and lift / 9.3-5
12.24 / MIDTERM II
15 / 12.29 / Design of turbomachinery, Centrifugal Pumps / 12.1-4
12.31 / Axial and mixed flow pumps, fans and turbines / 12.5-8,10
16 / 1.5.09 / Thermodynamics relationships of gasses / 11.1-2
1.7.09 / Mach number and speed of sound, isentropic compressible flows / 11.3-4 12.9