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Instructor notes to accompany CE 3305 at TTU

This e-book is a working copy of the instructor notes.

Copyright © 2024 Theodore G. Cleveland, The contents of this Jupyter Book are licensed for free consumption under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Note

Suggested Citation: Cleveland, T. G. (2024) Fluid Mechanics Notes to Accompany CE 3305 at TTU, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Whitacre College of Engineering, DOI (pending)

Overview

The title of the course is Mechanics of Fluids. The catalog description is:

CE 3305: Mechanics of Fluids (3:3:0). Prerequisites: CE 2301. Hydrostatics; dynamics of viscous and nonviscous fluids; resistance to flow; flow in pipes and open channels.

Purpose

The purpose of this required course is to provide engineering students with the fundamentals of fluid mechanics. Students should be able to use this foundation for the more in-depth courses to follow. This course shall provide students with a set of tools and concepts that are directly applicable to pipe systems, open channels, pumping plants, and measurement of fluid flows as well as other related problems that may be encountered as practicing engineers.

Objectives:

Upon sucessful completion of this course, students will have demonstrated the Knowledge, Skill, and Ability (KSA) to:

  1. Identify and apply fluid properties to analyze and solve fluid mechanics problems

  2. Interpret conservation laws and apply them to analyze problems in hydrodynamics

  3. Identify and apply systems and control volume methods based on conservation principles

  4. Analyze steady pipe flow in networks using associated concepts and Computational Thinking (ENGR 1330) tools

  5. Differentiate and apply principles of dimensional homogeneity

  6. Analyze boundary layer flows and drag for hydraulic analysis

  7. Apply Computational Thinking (ENGR 1330) methods to analyze data and create mathematical models

  8. Recognize how specific sensors and instruments in fluid mechanics work

  9. Characterize, analyze and design open channels for steady one-dimensional flow

Assessment

The graded components of the course are:

  • Quizzes (administered on a learning management system); individual activity

  • Exercises (collected on a learning management system); individual activity

  • Exams (administered on a learning management system); individual activity

The complete syllabus is located at http://54.243.252.9/ce-3305-webroot/0-Syllabus/ce-3305-2024-1-syllabus.html

Textbook

  1. Hibbeler, R.C, Fluid Mechanics, 3ed. Prentice Hall, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-13-803936-3 (print version; rental and online have different ISBN)

  1. Exercises (homework) are supplied in a separate section of the course website, so this notebook is not so cluttered. These will be linked directly in Blackboard

  2. Quizzes are administered on Blackboard

  3. Exams are paper-based and administered in-class on indicated dates.

  4. Functional ipython/Jupyter notebook code is presented throughout in shaded blocks like the one below. Students can cut-and-paste these into their own Jupyter Notebooks, and run them using principles they learned in ENGR 1330.