ME 333 Fluid Mechanics

http://depts.washington.edu/mengr333
Class time: MTWF 9:30-10:20 MEB 238




Instructor:

Professor Alberto Aliseda
office: MEB 306
tel: 543-4910
email: aaliseda@u.washington.edu
office hours: MWF 1:30-2:30 or by appointment


Course description Teaching Assistants
Syllabus Lab Session
Homework Class Notes
Exams
Textbook Grading


Course Description

The material in this course will provide the student with a fundamental background in the statics and dynamics of fluids. The basic conservation laws of mass, momentum and energy are analyzed in control volume and differential form. The student will learn how to choose the right formulation, integral vs differential, for fluid flow problems. The student will also learn how to work with different frames  of reference and use them to simplify problems. Real life applications of these fundamental concepts will be introduced, with an emphasis on critical analysis of the limitations of hte model used in solving the problem. Interpretation of results from experiments and numerical simulation of fluid flows will also be emphasized.

Teaching Assistants

    Patrick McGah                                              Chin Hei Ng 
    email: pmcgah@u.washington.edu                  
email: kenheing@uw.edu           
    Office Hours:
Tu 10:30-11:30                        Office Hours: MW 10:30-11:30
                           Th 2:00-3:00
                            Location: Teaching Assistant Offices, 2nd Floor MEB                                                        


Class Schedule


Lecture
          MTWF 9:30- 10:20 in MEB238

Recitations     Mon 2:30-4:20 in MEB103
                       
Wed 1:30-3:20 in MEB246


Class Notes

                  Class notes are available for download in pdf format.

Homework   /   Homework solutions

                  Homeworks will be assigned every Friday and will be due in class on Friday of the following week. Solutions will be posted in this webpage on that same
                  day. Thus, no late submissions will be accepted.                         


Exams

         Midterm:    Tuesday, May 3rd, in class.
              
       Final:       It will be comprehensive, covering all material in the course.

Syllabus

Week 1:          Chapter 1. Introduction.
                        Dimensions. Thermodynamics: density, pressure, temperature, ...
                        Fluid Properties: viscosity, surface tension, compressibility, ...


Week 2:          Chapter 2. Fluid Statics.

                        Pressure. Basic Equations. Standard Atmosphere. Forces.

Weeks 3 & 4:   Chapter 3. Conservation Laws: Integral Form.
                        Eulerian/Lagragian. Streamlines. Material derivative.
                        Control Volume. Reynolds transport theorem.

                        Conservation of Mass. Conservation of Momentum (Newton's second law).
                        Conservation of Energy.


Midterm


Weeks 5 & 6:
   Chapter 4. Differential Analysis of the Conservation Laws.
                        Conservation of Mass (continuity). Conservation of Momentum (Navier-Stokes).
                        Conservation of Energy. Euler/Bernouilli equation.


Week 7:          Chapter 5. Dimensional Analysis.
                       

Week 8:          Chapter 6. Internal Flows. Flow in Pipes. Laminar vs. turbulent.


Week 9: 
         Chapter 7. External Flows.
                     Boundary Layer. Lift and Drag.

Week 10:        Chapter 9. Compressible Flow.
                     Adiabatic and isentropic flow.
Converging-Diverging Nozzles.
                        Shock Waves.

Final



Lab Write Up (Download, print and bring to the lab session)   Lab in MEB G40.
                      Lab sessions will take place on Mon, May 16, Wed, May18, Mon, May 23 and Wed, May 25. Sign up Sheet in front of MEB306
                       Mon 2:30-4:00
                      
Mon 3:30-5:00
                       Wed
1:30-3:00
                       Wed 2:30-4:00



Textbook

Fluid Mechanics, 7th Edition, by Frank M. White. McGraw Hill, NY. 2011

Recommended Reading Material:
Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 8th Edition, by Fox. McDonald, Pritchard, John Wiley & Sons, NY. 2010
Fluid Mechanics, 4th Edition, by Kundu and Cohen, Academic Press, NY. 2008
Incompressible Flow, 3rd Edition, by R.L. Panton, John Wiley & Sons, NY. 2005
An introduction to Fluid Dynamics, 2nd Edition, by G.K. Batchelor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2000
           Useful fun stuff:
                 An Album of Fluid Motion
by Milton van Dyke, Parabolic Press.
                 Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics (CD-ROM), by G. M. Homsy et al., Cambridge University Press.
Recommended links:
           http://www.efluids.com
                    

Grading

Homeworks:   20%
Lab report:     10%
Midterm:         25%
Final:              45%


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