Fluid Mechanics
Instructor: Horsch Georgios
Course code: 5403
Semester: 4ο
e-class: https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/CIV1558/
Course content:

  • Definition and properties of fluids.
  • Fluid statics.
  • Manometers.
  • Kinematics, stream lines, steak lines, path lines.
  • The concept of System and Control Volume.
  • Integral analysis.
  • Continuity, energy, momentum equations.
  • Ideal fluid flow, Euler and Bernoulli equations.
  • Applications.
  • Vorticity, velocity potential, stream function, Laplace equation.
  • Real fluid flow, laminar, turbulent flow.
  • Dimensional analysis, Buckingham theorem, similitude.
  • Boundary layers.


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