The University of Queensland
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Syllabus
This subject introduces the study of fluid motion and concentrates on
the one-dimensional flow of incompressible and compressible fluids.
There will be 3 lectures per week covering the following topics.
- Properties of a fluid
- Fluid statics
- Kinematics and dynamics
- Integral conservation equations
- Dimensional analysis
- Flow of viscous incompressible fluids
- Fundamentals of compressible flow
See below for more details and access to
some of the slides from the lectures.
The tutorial work aims to develop problem solving skills while the
laboratory work aims to develop practical skills in flow measurement
and interpretation of experimental results.
Assessment
- Tutorial assignments (21% of total marks)
- Laboratory Work (9% of total)
- The end-of-semester examination will be closed-book and of
2 hours duration. (70% of total)
Lecture Times
- Monday 12noon-1pm, Room 50-N201 (Hawken Building)
- Wednesday 10am-11am, Room 50-2 (Hawken Building)
- Friday 12noon-1pm, Room 43-102 (Mining & Met. Building)
Lecturers
Tutorials
- Wednesday 11am-12noon, Room 67-112 (Mathematics Building)
Exercise/problem sheets will be distributed and nominated problems are
to be submitted for assessment.
All assignments will have to be submitted by the specified deadlines
for marking.
Late submissions will not be accepted.
Also, when submitting assignments,
clear evidence of individual effort must be included.
Tutors / Laboratory Demonstrators
- Mostafa Amin
- Mark Kendall
- Mark Sutcliffe
- Paul Wong
Laboratory Work
For E4212, there will be 3 experiments:
- Shock wave analogy
- Magneto-hydrodynamic duct
- Ducted fan
The class will be divided into 20 groups and a roster of groups and laboratory sessions
will be posted at the end of week 1. Laboratory sessions will be held on Thursday and
Friday afternoons (2-5pm) starting in week 2.
The laboratory work for this subject requires that you do some pre-work,
(as described in the handouts for each experiment) and that you read the following
background information notes before your scheduled laboratory session:
- Analysis of discontinuities in fluid flow (before experments 1 and 3)
- Bernoulli's equation (before all experiments)
Each student is required to keep a bound laboratory log book (e.g. spiral bound)
in which all pre-work, notes and data readings taken during the experiment must
be recorded. Loose pages are not to be used, except for graph paper which
must be glued or taped in. Remember, everything goes into your log book.
Failure to do the pre-work slows down the experiment and the tutors may require
that you return at a later date if you have no evidence in your workbook that
you have made a serious attempt at the pre-work before 2pm when the
practical work is scheduled to start.
The log book, with the required pre-work and subsequent graphical comparison
of theory and experiment etc, must be marked by the tutor at your next scheduled
appearance in the lab. Failure to have the log book marked will result in a zero mark
for that experiment.
The log book entries for the three experiments will be worth 3% each.
Textbook
The preferred text is:
- R.W. Fox & A.T. McDonald
Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
4th Ed. John Wiley & Sons 1994
If you are buying second-hand books, a number of other books are comparable.
- F.M. White
Fluid Mechanics
3rd Ed. McGraw-Hill 1994
- J.A. Roberson & C.T. Crowe
Engineering Fluid Mechanics
5th Ed. Houghton Mifflin 1993
- V.L. Streeter & E.B. Wylie
Fluid Mechanics
First Metric Ed. McGraw-Hill 1983
- J. K. Vennard & R.L. Street
Elemantary Fluid Mechanics
5th Ed. Wiley 1976
Some of the slides from the lectures are available as postscript files.
Click on the link to download the appropriate postscript file.
- Introductory concepts
- definition of a fluid
- continuum hypothesis
- velocity field
- forces acting on fluids
- Fluid statics
- pressure variation in a frictionless fluid
- pressure measurement
- hydrostatic forces
- buoyancy
- Kinematics and dynamics
- conservation of mass
- Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions
- Euler equation
- Bernoulli equation
- Integral conservation equations
- conservation of linear momentum
- free jets
- pressure losses
- nozzles, propellors, rocket propulsion
- conservation of angular momentum
- hydraulic jumps and open channel flows
- Dimensional analysis
- units and dimensions
- nondimensional groups and Buckingham's pi-theorem
- physical significance of dimensionless groups
- Flow of viscous incompressible fluids
- lift and drag coefficients
- pressure losses in laminar pipe flow
- transition to turbulence
- Moody diagram
- Navier-Stokes equation
- laminar viscous flow between plates
- Fundamentals of compressible flow
- propagation of a wave of infinitesimal strength
- Mach number, Mach cone
- adiabatic steady flow
- isentropic flow
- one-dimensional steady flow with area change
- flow through a converging-diverging nozzle
- flow through a normal shock wave
- moving normal shocks
- the shock tube, nozzle flow with a shock
- unsteady expansions
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PJ & AYK, 23-August-1996