ME4513 - Advanced Fluid Mechanics
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | School of Engineering |
Analysis of pipe and duct networks. Pressure transients in pipes.Turbomachinery: water turbines and pumps, cavitation, pump selection fan and compressors. Potential flow. Boundary layer theory: laminar and turbulent boundary layers, separation, methods for calculating boundary layers. Flow over immersed bodies: drag, lift, aerofoils, flow induced vibration and aircraft performance. Compressible flows: gas dynamics, transonic and supersonic flows, nozzles and ducts. Measurement techniques. Computational fluid dynamics. Applications of fluid flow in industrial and emerging technologies.
Learning Outcomes
- to develop skills in communicating results and its application to fellow engineers;
- to develop the students understanding of advanced fluid mechanics concepts and theory;
- to exercise the students skill in identifying and applying appropriate methods to solve fluid flow problems analytically or numerically;
- to read the fluid mechanics literature and communicate the developments to a critical audience.
| Prerequisites: | CS3008 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 25-Mar-2010 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Wenxian Lin. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50% - 70%); on-course assessment, some of which may be invigilated (30% - 50%). |
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