| Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering (2010) |
 Subjects |
| ENGINEERING FLUID MECHANICS |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | ENGINEERING FLUID MECHANICS | Code | 20224114 | |||||
| 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.- Fluids and fluid properties. | |
| 2.- Fluid statics. | - Pressure and pressure gradient - Pressure distribution in a fluid - Pressure measurement, manometers - Hydrostatic forces on surfaces |
| 3.- Fluid dynamics | - Basic concepts - Description of the flow: streamlines, streaklines ansd pathlines. Properties of the velocity field - Acceleration field of a fluid - Vorticity and irrotationality - Conservation of energy - Bernoulli's equation - Applications of the Bernoulli equation - Mechanical energy balance - The Reynolds transport theorem. - Momentum balance. |
| 4.- Dimensional analysis and similitude | - Introduction - The principle of dimensional homogeneity - Buckingham's pi theorem. - Dimensionality of the basic equations |
| 5.- Viscous flows in pipes | - Reynolds number - Laminar and turbulent flow - Energy losses due to friction - Minor losses |
| 6.- External flows | - Geometric effects and Reynolds number - Integral methods in boundary layer theory - The boundary layer equations |
