This unit covers the following areas: properties of fluid and fluid statics - basic properties of fluids, concept of ideal and real fluids, basic equations of fluid statics, hydrostatic forces, buoyancy and relative equilibrium; fluid flow concepts and basic equations-methods of describing fluid motion, concept of a control volume, basic equations of continuity, energy and momentum, Euler's equation, Bernoulli equation; dimensional analysis - Buckingham Pi theorem, dimensional and physical similarity; incompressible viscous flow, Hagen-Poiseuille equation, turbulent flow, Reynolds number, Froude number and mixing length hypothesis; steady flow through pipes - Darcy-Weisbach equation, head... -- Course Website
Instructor: S Das
Prerequisites: SIT194 and SEP101