ME4513:03
Advanced Fluid Mechanics
Townsville
Prerequisites: CS3008
39 lectures, 21 tutorials, 18 hours practicals. First semester.
Available to level 4 mechanical engineering students.
Potential flow/boundary layer concept, laminar and turbulent boundary layers, separation. Flow over immersed bodies: drag and lift, aerofoils, flow induced vibration, aircraft performance. Measurement techniques. Computational fluid dynamics. Analysis of pipe and duct networks. Pressure transients in pipes.Turbomachinery: water turbines and pumps, cavitation, pump selection. Fans and compressors. Compressible flow: equation of state, isentropic flow in nozzles and ducts.
Learning Objectives:
- computation of the drag and lift forces acting on bodies in external flow;
- flow and pressure drop in pipe networks;
- pressure transients and water hammer;
- specification of pumps and fans for use in flow systems;
- analysis of simple compressible flow problems.
Assessment by examination (50%-70%); on-course assessment (30%-50%).