ES A341 Fluid Mechanics

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ES A341 Fluid Mechanics

Spring Semester 2015

College Of Engineering
Instructor: Dr. Tom Ravens (ENGR 207; 786-1943; tmravens@uaa.alaska.edu)
Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-3 pm.
Prerequisites: ES A209 with a minimum grade of C and [(ESA302 with a minimum grade of C
or concurrent enrollment) or (MATH A302 with a minimum grade of C or current enrollment)].
Catalog description: Introduction to physical properties and behavior of fluids. Topics include
hydrostatics and dynamics of liquids and gases, dimensional analysis, fluid forces on immersed
bodies, pipe flow, fluid machinery, and open channel flow.
Required Text: Munson et al. Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, 7th edition, Wiley ISBN 978-1118-11613-5
Class Meetings: The class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:15 AM, 14 Jan. to 29
April 2015, in RH 211. Class meeting time will be used to present new material in lectures with
visual aids and to review homework and tests. Assignments, added reading material,
announcements, and schedule changes will be posted in advance on Blackboard at
http://technology.uaa.alaska.edu/blackboard/.
Final Exam: The final exam is scheduled for Tuesday 28 April from 10:00 12:45 PM in RH
211.
Assignments: Work should be presented in a professional manner, with a heading including
course title, students name, assignment number, and due date. Questions should be written before
the students answer. Assumptions should be stated and outside references cited. Only
assignments submitted by the due date will be graded.
Recitation: A recitation is scheduled every Wednesday (starting 1/21) 2 pm -3:45 pm in ENGR
111 to explore problems and review lecture material.
Grading: The course grade will be based on the following: homework 10%; mid-term exams
25% each; comprehensive final exam 40%. Letter grades will follow the scale A: 100-90, B: 8980, C: 79-70, D: 69-60, and F: below 60.

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Instructional Goals and Student Outcomes for ES A341 Fluid Mechanics

A. Instructional Goals
Provide engineering students with a working knowledge of properties and behavior of
fluids sufficient to solve common practical engineering problems involving liquids and
gases, including those encountered on examinations for Professional Engineering
license, and as a basis for advanced courses requiring this knowledge.
B. Student Outcomes
1. Introduction: Students are conversant with US and SI (metric) units of measure, and
are able to solve elementary problems dealing with the ideal gas law, viscosity, vapor
pressure, and surface tension.
2. Fluid Statics: Students can solve practical problems involving manometers and other
pressure-measuring devices, static fluid pressures and forces on immersed surfaces, and
Archimedes Principle of buoyancy.
3. Elementary Fluid Dynamics: Students are able to solve basic practical problems
with applications of the Bernoulli Equation involving streamlines, jets, and energy and
hydraulic grade lines.
4. Fluid Kinematics: Students can apply Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of
velocity fields and basic characteristics of steady and unsteady flows. Students are able
to solve elementary problems involving the impulse-momentum method.
5. Potential Flow: Students are able to solve practical problems involving inviscid,
irrotational, incompressible, and uniform flow using the Navier-Stokes Equations and
principles and conventions of potential flow.
6. Similitude, Dimensional Analysis, and Modeling: The principles and applications
of the Buckingham Pi Theorem and common dimensionless fluids parameters are
applied by students. Students are practiced in solving problems related to scale
modeling of hydraulic engineering works.
7. Pipe flow: Students are able to solve practical problems involving laminar and
turbulent flow in conduits and pipes.
8. Flow over Immersed Bodies: Students are able to solve practical problems involving
lift and drag on immersed bodies.
9. Introduction to Open Channel Flow: Students are able to apply fundamental
principles and practical conventions of flow in open channels and are able to solve
elementary problems of this type.

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Class Schedule
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1/13: Introduction, fluid properties, Ch. 1.; homework 1 due 1/22

1/15: Fluid properties, Ch. 1; fluid statics, Ch. 2.
1/20: Fluid statics, Ch. 2.
1/22: Fluid statics, Ch. 2.; homework 2 due 1/29.
1/27: Fluid statics, Ch. 2.
1/29: Fluid statics, Ch. 2.; homework 3 due 2/5.
2/3:
Elementary fluid dynamics, Ch. 3.
2/5:
Elementary fluid dynamics, Ch. 3; homework 4 due 2/12.
2/10: Elementary fluid dynamics, Ch. 3.
2/12: Elementary fluid dynamics, Ch. 3; homework 5 due 2/17.
2/17: Exam 1 review.
2/19: Exam 1 (Chapters 1-3)
2/24: Fluid kinematics, Ch. 4; homework 6 due 2/26
2/26: Fluid kinematics, Ch. 4; homework 7 due 3/5
3/3:
Fluid kinematics, Ch. 4.
3/5:
Control volume analysis, Ch. 5; homework 8 due 3/19

Spring Break!
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3/17:
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3/24:
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Control volume analysis, Ch. 5;

Control volume analysis, Ch. 5. homework 9 due 3/26
Potential flow, Ch. 6;
Potential flow, Ch. 6;
Exam 2 review.
Exam II (Ch. 4-6)
Dimensional analysis, Ch. 7. homework 10 due 4/16
Pipe flow, Ch. 8;
Pipe flow, Ch. 8.
Fluid Drag, Ch. 9; homework 11 due 4/23
Fluid Drag and Open Channel Flow, Ch. 9 and 10.
Pre-final recitation.
Final Exam (comprehensive); 10:00 12:45 PM, RH 211