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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

308807 (v.1) Fluid Mechanics 230

Area: Engineering Operations
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Science Laboratory: 2 x 2 Hours Quarterly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 302196 (v.3) Fluid Mechanics 512 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 307529 (v.4) Engineering Mechanics 100 or any previous version
AND
307533 (v.3) Engineering Materials 100 or any previous version
AND
    307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
    OR
    307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
    OR
    7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104
AND
307543 (v.5) Electrical Systems 100 or any previous version
AND
    310205 (v.2) Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes 100 or any previous version
    OR
    314231 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes 100
AND
    310206 (v.2) Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication 100 or any previous version
    OR
    314230 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication 100
AND
310207 (v.3) 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.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2013 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2013 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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

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