Fluid Mechanics I 0901-341
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INSTRUCTOR: |
Robert P. Hesketh |
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Office: |
Rowan Hall 315 |
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Phone Number: |
256-5313 |
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Email: |
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Meetings: |
Tuesday 09:25 AM - 12:05 PM JAMES 3117 |
- Syllabus
- Schedule of Topics (updated on blackboard)
Homework, Quiz and Exam
Solutions
Log
into http://blackboard.rowan.edu
Lecture Notes (Available on Blackboard)
·
Introduction to Course,
Objectives, Syllabus
o
Team Problem
Solving
o
Inductive Topic
Order
·
Fluids Lab
1: Introduction to Fluids Experiments
·
Fluid Statics
·
Fluid Flow
without accounting for friction
o
The Bernoulli
Equation - Neglecting Friction!
o
Mechanical Energy
Balances,
·
Unsteady-State
Mass Balances
o
Applications of
Unsteady-State Mass Balances and Bernoulli’s Equation
o
Fluids Lab
2: Tank Drainage & Siphon
Experiments
o
Restrictions on
the Use of the Bernoulli Equation
·
Computer
Lab: Introduction to POLYMATH Laboratory
·
Viscous Flow in
Pipes
o
Fluids Lab
3: Pressure Drop in Pipes
o
Fluids Lab
4: Pressure Drop in Pipeline Elements
o
Computer
Lab: Problem Solving with Excel
o
Frictional Losses
in Pipeline Elements
o
Aspen Computer
Lab - Pressure Drop in Pipes
o
Economic Pipe
Diameter, Economic Velocity
o
Laminar and
Turbulent flow
o
Osborne Reynolds’
Demonstration
o
Laminar Flow
Velocity Profile
o
Entrance Region
and Fully Developed Flow
o
COMSOL
Laboratory: Developing Flows
·
Introduction to
Pipe Flow Rate Measurements: orifice,
venturi and rotameter
o
Permanent and
Temporary Pressure Loss
o
How to purchase a
Flowmeter
o
Fluids Lab
4: Rotameter – Variable Area Flowmeter
·
Mass, Energy, and
Momentum Balances
·
Momentum
Balance Typical Forces: gravity,
Pressure and Wall Shear Stress
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Momentum Balances
Applications:
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7.3.1 Jet-Surface
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7.3.2 Pipes
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7.3.3 Rockets and
Jets.
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7.3.4 Sudden
Expansion
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7.3.5 Eductors,
Ejects etc.
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Aspirator
laboratory
o
Impinging jet,
Force on a Reducing Pipe Bend, Orifice Plate, Rotameter
o
Jet Ejector, Flow
and Pressure Distribution in a Manifold
o
Feel the Force or
Fun with Water Lab
o
Fluids Lab
5: Flowmeters:
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F1-15 Bernoulli’s
Theorem Demonstration - venturi
o
F1-21 Flowmeter
Demonstration – venturi and orifice plate
o
Hampden Circuit
Demonstrator – flow measurement – orifice plate
·
Terminal
Velocities: Solid Objects and Spheres
·
Lab: Measurement of Terminal Velocities
·
Dimensionless
Numbers and Dimensional Analysis
Laboratories (Available on Blackboard)
· Fluids Lab 1: Introduction to Fluids Experiments
· Fluids Lab 2: Tank Drainage & Siphon Experiments
· F1-15 Bernoulli’s Theorem – venturi
· F1-17 Orifice and Free Jet Flow
· Fluids Lab 2: Pressure Drop in Pipes
· Computer Lab: Introduction to POLYMATH Laboratory
· Fluids Lab 3: Pressure Drop in Pipeline Elements
· F1-22 Energy Losses in Bends and Fittings
· Osborne-Reynolds Demonstration
· Computer Lab: Problem Solving with Excel
· Aspirator laboratory
· F1-16 Impact of a Jet
· Feel the Force or Fun with Water Lab
· Fluids Lab 4: Flowmeters:
· F1-21 Flowmeter – venturi and orifice plate
· Hampden Circuit Demonstrator – flow measurement – orifice plate
· Lab: Measurement of Terminal Velocities
COMSOL Tutorials
- COMSOL
TUTORIAL - A First Example (For First Time Users of Comsol)
- Flow between Parallel Plates
- Non-Newtonian Fluids
- COMSOL: Rising Bubble Modeled with the Level Set Method (See Comsol Model Library)
- Boundary Layer
POLYMATH
POLYMATH Rowan Student
version for home computer use (Rowan Students Only)
This can be found at POLYMATH version 6.1. For off campus users you need
a VPN connection
to access velocity computer and obtain this file. The location of the file is:
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TEXTBOOK WEBSITE
Rowan Bookstore Site for all Textbooks for Process Fluid Transport
Website for Cutlip&Shacham POLYMATH Text
Transport
Processes and Separation Process Principles (Includes Unit Operations), 4th
Edition, by Christie J. Geankoplis, Prentice Hall, PTR, 2003 (Amazon)
Online version from Safari Books
Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers, 3rd Ed. By Noel de Nevers, McGraw-Hill, 2005. (FMChE)
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