308807 (v.1) Fluid Mechanics 230

Area:	School of Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	2 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	2 x 2 Hours Quarterly
Anti Requisite(s):	302196 (v.2) ChE 512 Fluid Mechanics or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):	307529 (v.2) Engineering Mechanics 100 or any previous version AND 307533 (v.2) Engineering Materials 100 or any previous version AND 307535 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version OR 307536 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 120 or any previous version OR 10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version AND 307537 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version OR 307538 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version AND 307543 (v.3) Electrical Systems 100 or any previous version AND 310205 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes 100 or any previous version AND 310206 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication 100 or any previous version AND 310207 (v.1) Engineering Programming 100 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Introduction (basic properties of fluids), flow fields (steady/unsteady flow, streamlines), velocity profile (Couette flow) and Newton's law of viscosity, Reynolds number. Hydrostatics, control-volume analysis - mass conservation and momentum equation and applications of CV analysis. Bernoulli equation, measurement of pressure, flow speed and volumetric flow rate, and applications of Bernoulli equation (Froude propeller theory). One-dimensional energy equation, laminar flow in pipes and channels, laminar-to-turbulent transition, turbulent flow in pipes, index and logarithmic laws, wall-roughness, Moody chart, hydraulic grade lines, boundary layers (laminar and turbulent), drag, dimensional analysis, dynamic similarity, pump types and characterisation.
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Field of Education:	030701 Mechanical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Supplemental *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2009	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y

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Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External