CBE 30355 - Transport Phenomena I: Fluid Mechanics

Schedule

• Class

  TTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM. Room 116 DBTL
  
  

• Teaching Approach

  Narrated lecture notes will be provided for each class. Each of these will be available through the class website. Students are to view the notes and complete a short quiz for each class on Canvas. Students get two tries at the quiz before class (the higher score counts). You will get a single try at the "copy" due after the class - but both the before and after quizzes count! The cumulative quiz score will count the same as the mid-term. The in-person class session will be reserved for answering questions, running demonstrations, and help with homework assignments. We will also solve a "problem of the day" selected to illuminate the topic of the day's lecture.

Instructor

• D. T. Leighton

  Office hours are 4:00 - 5:00 pm MTWTh or by appointment, via Zoom

Textbooks

• The course website at https://www3.nd.edu/~dtl/cheg355/cheg355.html
• The course notes. It is highly recommended that you print them out so that you can annotate them in class. You can coil-bind the printed version for a couple of bucks at the Kinkos in the Huddle.
  
  
• The glossary of terms. This is an aid to understanding the "language" of fluid mechanics that we will be using this term.
  
  
• R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart and E. N. Lightfoot, Transport phenomena, New York, Wiley, 2006. This is an update of -the- classic text on transport phenomena. Although at a high level, it provides excellent development and applications of the microscopic equations governing transport. As the problem sets are not drawn from the text, the international version of BS&L is fine for this class. Chapters 1-8 are appropriate for this course.

Course Outline

• Introduction: What is Fluid Mechanics?
• Fluids at Rest
• Fluids in Motion: An Introduction
• Conservation of Mass
• Conservation of Momentum (macroscopic balances)
• Conservation of Momentum (microscopic equations)
• Simple Flow Problems
• Dimensional Analysis
• The Stream Function
• Low Reynolds Number Flows
• Potential Flows
• Boundary Layer Theory
• Turbulence
• Friction Factors

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