CIEG 305 Syllabus
CIEG 305 Fluid Mechanics (3 credits)
Spring 2003
Class: MW 12:15-1:20 in 205 Brown Laboratory
Required Text
The required text is Fluid Mechanics, 5th edition, by Frank M. White,
McGraw-Hill, 2003. If you find a copy, the 4th edition may be substituted, but
you will have to check with friends that you are doing the correct homework
assignments.
Additional resource materials related to the text are available online at the
McGraw-Hill
website.
Course Objectives
The goals of this course are to aquaint the student with the theoretical
foundations for the study of incompressible fluid mechanics, and to illustrate
the use of the resulting principles in practical engineering applications. The
subject matter covered includes fluid statics, control volume analysis of fluid
flows, differential analysis of inviscid and viscous fluid flows, dimensional
analysis, and application to viscous flow in pipes and free surface flows in
open
channels. Students are assumed to have a previous background in mathematics up
through differential equations, as well as engineering statics and dynamics.
Course Outline
- Introduction (Chapter 1)
- Pressure Distribution in a Fluid (Chapter 2)
- Integral Relations for a Control Volume (Chapter 3)
- Differential Relations for a Fluid Particle (Chapter 4)
- Dimensional Analysis and Similarity (Chapter 5)
- Viscous Flow in Ducts (Chapter 6)
- Open Channel Flow (Chapter 10)
Grading will be based on two in-class exams ( 25 pts each), one final
exam (30 pts ) and graded homework (20 pts ). All exams will be closed book.
Homeworks will be assigned on Wednesdays on a weekly basis and will be due one
week later at the beginning of class. Late homeworks will not be graded for
credit except by prior arrangement or as a result of dire personal
circumstance.