EG5503 - Fluid Mechanics

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
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

Availabilities
, , Study Period 4
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Face to face teaching 20-Mar-2006 to 07-Apr-2006
Coordinator:	jc146723
Contact hours:	20 hours 10 hours 20 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
Restrictions:	An enrolment quota applies to this offering.
, , Study Period 9
Census Date 20-Oct-2006
Face to face teaching 16-Oct-2006 to 03-Nov-2006
Coordinator:	jc146723
Contact hours:	20 hours 10 hours 20 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
Restrictions:	An enrolment quota applies to this offering.

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