Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Akışkanlar Mekaniği
	English	Fluid Mechanics
Course Code	AKM 204E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	4	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Zerefşan Kaymaz
Course Objectives		1. To introduce the basic principles of fluid mechanics. 2. To teach formulation and simplification of the equations of fluid flow. 3. To help students gain an ability to use the equations for solution of fluid flow problems.
Course Description		In this class, principles of fluid motion are given with problems following the theory. Chapters include: Basic concepts and definitions. Fluid kinematics. Fluid statics. Manometers and pressure measurements. Hydrostatic forces on immersed bodies. Equations of conservation of mass, momentum and energy for systems and control volumes. Reynold’s transport theorem. Bernoulli equation and applications. Rotational and irrotational flows. Vorticity. Stream Function and Flow Potential. Elementary flows. Flow over immersed bodies. Applications and examples from Atmospheric flows.
Course Outcomes		On completing this course, students should be able to 1. Know mathematical concepts such as scalar, vector and tensor operations; gradient and divergence, be able to solve problems related to Gauss and Stokes Theorems, divergence and convergence concepts, and rotationality. 2. Classify flows as uniform/non-uniform, steady/unsteady, compressible/incompressible, laminar/turbulent, 1D/2D/3D and to calculate mass flow rate, volumetric flow rate, mean velocity, and momentum flux rate in a flow 3. Know about viscosity, shear stress, deformation rate, Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow characteristics, to be able to solve viscous flow problems 4. Know the concept of velocity field, stream lines, trajectory, and Langrangian and Eularian description of fluid motion 5. Know hydrostatic law, absolute and gage pressures, pressure calculations 6. Know how to calculate hydrostatic pressure on submerged objects in fluids, applications point of resultant force, and moments 7. Know concept of fluid, system and control volume, be able to solve problems using differential and integral approach. 8. Use basic laws of a system such as Conservation of mass, Newton’s Second Law, and Laws of Thermodynamics and solve related problems. 9. Derive Bernoulli equation using momentum conservation and energy conservation 10. Know various pressures (static pressure, stagnation pressure, dynamic pressure) and pressure measurements (static pressure probe, wall probe, pea-toe tube), velocity and mass flow rate measurement techniques. 11. Know rotational motion of the fluid particle, to calculate the characteristics of vortex flows and vorticity. 12. Apply incompressible, inviscid, irrotational flow problems to atmospheric flows and flying objects. 13. Know how to determine stream function and potential function for incompressible, inviscid and irrotational flows. 14. Know about the superposition technique of the elementary flows in order to investigate and model the real flows in nature.
Pre-requisite(s)		basic math and physics
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook		• Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, R.W. Fox and A.T. MacDonald, 1985 • Fluid Mechanics, F. M. White, 2005 (this has also Turkish translation)
Other References		1. Akışkanlar Mekaniği:Temelleri Ve Uygulamaları, Y.A. Çengel ve J. M. Cimbala, 2008, Güven Yayınları 2. Fluid Mechanics of the Atmosphere, R.A. Brown, 1991 3. Fluıd Mechanics, P.K. Kundu, 1990 4. Fluid Mechanics For Physicists, T:E. Faber, 1995 5. Fluid Mechanics, Atıl Bulu, 2001, İTÜ 6. Fluid Mechanics, Shaum Series 7. Akışkanlar Mekaniği, Haluk Örs, 1995 8. Akışkanlar Mekaniği, Erdoğan Şuhubi, 1995 9. Lecture notes

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