Flow Kinematics

Lesson Outline

  • Background

  • Constant velocity; constant acceleration

  • Translation

  • Rotation

Readings

  1. Hibbeler, R.C, Fluid Mechanics, 2ed. Prentice Hall, 2018. ISBN: 9780134655413 pp. 93-177

  2. DF Elger, BC Williams, Crowe, CT and JA Roberson, Engineering Fluid Mechanics 10th edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. (placeholder file to get links working). http://54.243.252.9/ce-3305-webroot/3-Readings/EFM-5.pdf

  3. Cleveland, T. G. (2014) Fluid Mechanics Notes to Accompany CE 3305 at Jade-Holshule (TTU Study Abroad 2015-2019), Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Whitacre College of Engineering. http://54.243.252.9/ce-3305-webroot/3-Readings/ce3305-lecture-005.0.pdf

  4. De Lima, R. P., Cleveland, T. G., De Carvalho, R.P., 2014. Infrared thermography as a heat tracer method for velocity estimation in shallow flows Die Bodenkultur, Journal for Land Management, Food, and Envrionment, Vol 65, No. 3-4, pp. 71-77. ISSN 006-5471

Background

This lesson introduces the Euler (and Bernoulli) equations which are fundamental in applied fluid mechanics.

The lesson also examines Lagrangian and Eulerian reference frames in the contaext of variational gonckulus as applied to fluid mechanics.

We begin with flow patterns