EG5503 - Fluid Mechanics
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
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Topics include: A review of fluid related tensor elements. Important fluid theorems and formulations, incompressible flow, conservative and non-conservative forms, and the stress tensor. Energy conservation equation, fluid kinematics, rotational and irrotational flow and the stress-rate of strain relationship for Newtonian fluids. The Navier-Stokes equations, boundary conditions, Bernoulliys equation, complex potential and the Cauchy Riemann equations. Various forms of flow including uniform flow, source and sink flow, vortex flow, doublet, ideal flow over a circular cylinder, circulation and lift. Exact solutions of the viscous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Regular and singular perturbation problems. Flow over a flat plate, compressible flows, small perturbation equations, the wave equation, Riemann invariants and the linearized shock tube.
Learning Outcomes
- To provide an introduction to basic mathematical methods for describing fluid flows with the objective of exposing approaches which are available for analytically modelling different classes of flows.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to calculate, produce, interpret and communicate numerical information;
- The ability to select and use appropriate IT tools;
- The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information;
- The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner.
| Prerequisites: | EG5501 |
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| , , Study Period 4 | |
| Census Date 31-Mar-2005 | |
| Face to face teaching 21-Mar-2005 to 08-Apr-2005 | |
| Coordinator: | jc146723 |
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| , , Study Period 9 | |
| Census Date 21-Oct-2005 | |
| Face to face teaching 17-Oct-2005 to 04-Nov-2005 | |
| Coordinator: | jc146723 |
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| Assessment: | (50%); (50%). |
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