102341 - Fluid Mechanics
Credit Hours

3

Pre-requisite

102201

Co-requisite

_

Distribution

3+0

In this course, students will learn about the physical properties of fluids, fluid statics, pressure and its measurements, forces on plane and curved submerged surfaces, buoyancy & floatation, fluids in motion, flow kinematics and visualization, basic control volume approach, differential and integral continuity equation, pressure variation in flowing fluids, Euler?s and Bernoulli?s equations, applications of Bernoulli equation, momentum principle and its applications, Navier-stokes equations. energy equation, hydraulic and energy grade lines, dimensional analysis and similitude, surface resistance and introduction to boundary layer theory, flow in conduits, laminar and turbulent flows, frictional and minor losses, piping systems.