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MME 2227 Fluid Mechanics is a course designed to teach students about fluid properties, fluid statics, and dynamics, including flow measurement techniques. The course includes lectures, tutorials, and practical sessions, with assessments comprising continuous tests and a final exam. Key topics include pressure distribution, conservation equations, and the behavior of fluids in various conditions.

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MME FLUID_MECHANICS[1]

MME 2227 Fluid Mechanics is a course designed to teach students about fluid properties, fluid statics, and dynamics, including flow measurement techniques. The course includes lectures, tutorials, and practical sessions, with assessments comprising continuous tests and a final exam. Key topics include pressure distribution, conservation equations, and the behavior of fluids in various conditions.

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MME 2227 FLUID MECHANICS

Prerequisites: PHE 2124 Physics for engineers II

Purpose
To enable the student to understand the nature of fluids and their behaviour, fluid statics
and forces in submerged surfaces.

Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, the student should be able to;
1. Describe the properties of fluids.
2. Analyse the behaviour of a liquid at rest and in motion.
3. Identify and use flow measurement devices in closed conduits and open channels.

Course description

Properties of fluids: nature,density,viscosity, vapour pressure, surface tension and


capillarity. Fluid statics: pressure distribution, Pascal’s law, pressure gauges and
manometers. Forces on submerged surfaces. Fluids in relative equilibrium and
under constant acceleration. Fluids dynamics: Conservation equations; mass
conservation, steady flow energy equation, Navier-Stokes, Euler and Bernoulli
equations. Flow measurement in closed conduits and open channels;venturimeter,
orifice meters, flow nozzle, rotameter, rectangular weir and triangular weir. Pitot
tubes.

Teaching methodology: Lectures, tutorials, group discussions and practical


Instruction materials/equipment
1. Liquid Crystal Displays.
2. White boards/black boards
3. Flipcharts

Assessment
Continuous Assessment Tests 30%
End of Semester Examination 70%

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Course text books
1. Douglas J. F., Gasiorek J. M. &Swaffield J.A. (2005) Fluid
Mechanics, Prentice
Hall, 5th Ed.
2. Egon Krause (2005), Fluid mechanics: with problems and
solutions, and an
aerodynamic laboratory, Springer
3. Joseph H. S., and Nuri A. (2008), Fluid mechanics, Springer, 2nd edition

In solids, the molecules are very closely spaced whereas in liquids the spacing
between the
different molecules is relatively large and in gases the spacing between the
molecules is still large. It means that inter-molecular cohesive forces are large in
solids, smaller in liquids and extremely small in gases, and on account of this fact,
solids possess compact and rigid form, liquid molecules can move freely within
the liquid mass and the molecules of gases have greater freedom of movement so
that the gases fill the container completely in which they are placed.
A solid can resist tensile, compressive and shear stresses upto a certain limit
whereas a fluid has
no tensile strength or very little of it and it can resist the compressive forces only
when it is kept in a container. When a fluid is subjected to a shearing force it
deforms continuously as long as the force is applied. The amount of shear stress in a
fluid depends on the magnitude of the rate of deformation
of the fluid element.

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