Catalog Description:Fundamentals of fluid mechanics with hydraulic applications: fluid properties, hydrostatics, dimensional analysis, energy, momentum, continuity, and steady flow.
Pre-requisite(s):
EGN 3343
Designation:Required
Contribution of course to meeting the Professional Component:
| Math & Science Topic | 0.0 credit hours |
| Engineering Topics | 3.0 credit hours |
| General Education Topics | 0.0 credit hours |
| Class Schedule: | Laboratory Schedule: | ||
| Number of sessions per week | 3 | Number of sessions per week | 0 |
| Duration of each session | 50 mins | Duration of each session | 0 |
Course Objectives:
· Development of dimensionally consistent equations. Competence with
both SI and British Gravitational system of units.
· Development of mass, momentum, and energy balances.
· Application of conservation equations for pipe flow, pumping, and simple
open channel flow applications.
Topics:
· Dimensions systems (BG and SI)
· Fluid properties - Ideal gas behavior, Newtonian fluids, Non-Newtonian
fluids
· Fluid Statics - Pressure measurement, Pressure variation with depth,
Forces on submerged objects, Location of forces on submerged objects, Buoyancy
and stability
· Reynolds transport equation, general unsteady flow
· Conservation of mass - continuity equation (unsteady flow)
· Conservation of energy - Bernoulli equation, modifications for pumps/turbines,
and head loss. Steady flow.
· Conservation of momentum: free body diagrams, forces on hydraulic structures,
impulse momentum equation. Steady flow.
· Jets, rotating machines (pumps, turbines)
· Dimensional Analysis
· Similitude
· Energy loss estimation - pipe flow, general fluids using Darcy-Weisbach
equation with Moody diagram and empirical equations to define f.
· Energy loss estimation - minor losses.
· Energy loss estimation - pipe flow with water, empirical relations
(Hazen-Williams and Manning)
· Pipe problems: determine pressure drop, determine flow, determine pipe
size.
· Pump problems: review pump curve, system curve, operating point.
Textbook(s):
· Franzini, Fluid Mechanics with Engineering Applications, 10th Edition,
McGraw Hill, 2002.
Reference(s):
· Instructor Course Pak
· NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering Supplied Reference Handbook. 5th
Ed.
Relationship of the
course to Program Outcomes:
Civil Engineering Outcomes
1. Graduates will solve problems that involve differential and integral calculus,
differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions. Assess differential
equations skills.
2. Solve topics involving vector mechanics and equilibrium.
3. Graduates will be exposed to real-world problems and solutions.
Environmental Engineering Outcomes
1. Graduates will solve problems that involve differential and integral calculus,
differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions. Assess differential
equations skills.
2. Graduates will solve problems involving topics from chemistry such as ideal
gases.
3. Graduates will be exposed to real-world problems and solutions.
Civil Engineering Program Criteria
1. Component of Water Resources Sub-discipline. Also includes CWR4101C (Hydrology)
and CWR4203C (Hydraulics).
Environmental Engineering Program Criteria
1. Fluid mechanics program criteria