Fluid Mechanics
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ~William Arthur Ward
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Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
Powers of Ten – Units – Dimensions – Measurements – Uncertainties – Dimensional Analysis – Scaling Arguments
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Fluid Statics
Hydrostatics – Archimedes’ Principle – Fluid Dynamics
Pascal’s Principle – Hydrostatics – Atmospheric Pressure – Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires
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Surface Tension
Prof. Lloyd Trefethen
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Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
1D Kinematics – Speed – Velocity – Acceleration
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Vectors – Dot Products – Cross Products – 3D Kinematics
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3D Kinematics – Free Falling Reference Frames
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Non-Conservative Forces – Resistive Forces – Air Drag – Terminal Velocity
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Pressure fields and acceleration
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Eulerian and Lagrangian Descriptions in Fluid Mechanics
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Flow Visualization
Stephen J. Kline
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Fluid Dynamics and Statics and Bernoulli’s Equation
Prof. R. Shankar
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Boundary layers
Prof. F. Abernathy
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Fluid Dynamics of Drag
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