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308810 (v.1) Fluid Flow Modelling 332


Area: Department of Mechanical 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: 1 x 2 Hours Once-only
Prerequisite(s): 308807 (v.1) Fluid Mechanics 230 or any previous version
 
Syllabus: This unit will not be available until 2006. Review of fundamental principles in fluid mechanics. Ideal fluid flow - stream function, velocity potential. Laplace equation - superposition, flow modelling, circulation and lift. Viscous effects - laminar andturbulent boundary layers, transition, skin-friction drag, slender-body theory, drag coefficient and similarity. Free-surface flows - open-channel flow, Froude number, subcritical and supercritical flows, hydraulic jump, wave drag. Compressible flow. Mach number, adiabatic and isentropic flow, shock waves, lift and drag.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 
Field of Education: 30701 Mechanical Engineering
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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