302853 (v.1) Fluid Mechanics 231


Area:

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Credits:

12.5

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:

1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 0.5 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Once-only
 

Syllabus:

Ideal Fluid Flow - fluid properties, hydrostatics, flow fields, streamlines, velocity profile (Couette flow), Newtons law of viscosity, non-Newtonian constitutive laws, Reynolds number, Control-volume analysis, Bernoulli equation, pressure and flow speedmeasurement, volumetric flow rates, one-dimensional energy equation.
 
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Field of Education:

30700 Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Technology (Narrow Grouping)

HECS Band (if applicable):

2

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Informational

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y    
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area