Energy Engineering Fluid Mechanics

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Basic principles of mechanics of fluids; properties of fluids; fluids at rest; pressure measuring devices; dimensional analysis; the laws of conservation of mass and momentum; Bernoulli's equation for incompressible flow and the energy equation; flow measurements; differential analysis of fluid flows; the Navier-Stokes equations; elementary pipe flow problems including losses, pumps, etc.; forces on immersed bodies; applications to a variety of problems in energy engineering. Prerequisite(s): Engineering 201 or 212; and Energy Engineering 340 or Mathematics 331; and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.