| Educational guide School of Engineering |
english |
| Degree in Mathematical and Physical Engineering (2021) |
 Subjects |
| FLUID MECHANICS |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | FLUID MECHANICS | Code | 17274114 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | Third | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1 Properties of Fluids | 1.1 Description of the fluid as a continuous medium 1.2 Density and pressure 1.3 Viscosity. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids 1.4 Surface tension 1.5 Limits of the continuum description: mean free path and Knudsen number |
| 2 Hydrostatics | 2.1 Stress tensor and pressure tensor 2.2 Fundamental equation of hydrostatics 2.3 Applications 2.4 Calculation of buoyancy forces on surfaces and objects |
| 3 Conservation of mass, momentum and energy | 3.1 Lagrangian and Eulerian description 3.2 Material derivative 3.3 Streamlines, pathlines and streaklines 3.4 Stream function 3.5. Vorticity and Circulation 3.6 Euler's equations for inviscid flow |
| 4 Viscous flow | 4.1 Constitutive equation for a Newtonian fluid 4.2 Navier-Stokes equations 4.3 No-slip condition 4.4 Dimensional analysis 4.5 Definition of dimensionless numbers |
| 5 Solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations | 5.1 Solucions exactes 5.1.1 Flux de Couette 5.1.2 Flux de Poiseuille 5.1.3 Flux de Taylor-Couette |
| 6. Forces on objects immersed in a flow | 6.1 Stokes force 6.2 Flow around a sphere 6.3 Flow around a cylinder 6.4 Definition of Drag and Lift coefficients 6.5 Magnus effect 6.6 Numerical solutions |
| 7. Boundary layer flows | 7.1. Boundary Layer Approximation 7.2 Different measures of boundary layer thickness: delta99, displacement thickness, momentum thickness. 7.3 Boundary layer on a flat plate: Blasius solution 7.4 Separation condition |
