PROGRAM CONTENT

BASIC CONSIDERATIONS : dimensions, units and physical quantities,

continuum hypothesis, fluid properties : density, viscosity and specific gravity, forces on a continuum, the stress tensor, stress in fluids, tension in a fluid at rest

• STATICS OF FLUIDS:  the equation of statics and its implications, statics of incompressible fluids in the gravitational field, pressure definition and measurement, hydrostatic forces on flat and curved surfaces

• KINEMATICS OF FLUIDS : definition of kinematic quantities, Reynolds transport theorem, spatial and material coordinates,  the material derivative, lagrangian and eulerian descriptions of motion, one- two- and three-dimensional flows, the velocity gradient tensor and its physical interpretation, viscous and inviscid flows, laminar and turbulent flows

• DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND SIMILITUDE:  motivations, main dimensinless parameters in Hydraulics, advantages and applications

• CONSERVATION LAWS: integral and differential form of the equations, conservation of mass, momentum and energy, continuity equation, Navier-Stokes equation  

• FLUID DYNAMICS: motion of fluids, uniform and permanent flows, definitions, inviscid fluid, Bernouilli equation, applications

• INCOMPRESSIBLE AND VISCOUS FLUIDS: viscous flows, exact solutions,  pipe flows,  introduction to turbulence

• FLOW IN PIPING SYSTEM AND IN OPEN CHANNEL: 1D scheme, uniform flow, head losses, practical problems

• MEASUREMENTS IN FLUID MECHANICS: measurements of local flow parameters, flow rate and pressure measurement, flow visualization, uncertainty analysis.