CEE-3500 ELEMENTARY FLUID MECHANICS
Instructor: Dr. William Rahmeyer
 

Announcements:

Our class room has been moved to ENGR-108 starting Friday March 7th !!!!

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS / SOLUTIONS

Test #1 review

sample test #1

Test #2 review

sample test #2

Test #3 review


sample test #3

GVF Homework problems (curves)

Review for Final

sample final



to get the password to open the PDF files, you need to go to my office

Please note that the following handouts and material are only for students currently registered for this course
 

Handouts: [PDF files] for use by class only
   Example of hydrostatic force methods
  
Example of pressure distribution w/ two fluids
  
Examples of pressure from horizontal acceleration
  
Extra HW#1 on viscosity and density of water
   Velocity Profiles
   Energy    
   Jeppson ch 5 problems  
   Momentum
   Momentum examples
    Example of beta (open channel)
   Momentum on a moving vane
   Pipe Friction
   Hydraulic Jump
   Hydraulic Jumps with GVF
   Open Channel Flow
   Compound Channels
   Channel Cross Sections
   Potential Flow
   Similitude
   Dimensional Analysis
   Dimensional Analysis Extra Homework
   Gradually Varied Flow

    Normal Moment Function and Hydraulic Jumps
    Lecture 23B on Dimensional Analysis
    Open Channel Weir   and  photos
    Weir Experiment

    Calculator equations for prismatic open channel
   Example of integration to calculate flow*
    Example of unit conversion for viscosity*
    Example of solving the Colebrook White Equation*
   Example of solving an unsteady flow flow in a tank*
   Example of solutions with Maple for Fluid Mechanics*

      * includes information about HP calculators and Maple
         see CEE1880 for more solutions with calculators and Maple

Movie clip on Viscosity

Open Channel Photos and Video Clips of a Hydraulic Jump, Supercritical Flow, Critical Flow, Subcritical Flow,
Flow over a Weir, and Flow under a Drop Gate (Student Laboratory Flume)

 

         

 

                Course Outline and Syllabus
 

            The goals for this class are:

  1. To learn and apply the principle or engineering fundamental of fluid properties.
  2. To learn and apply the principle or engineering fundamental of fixed body diagrams and fluid control volumes.
  3. To learn and apply the principle or engineering fundamental of similitude.
  4. To learn and apply the principle or engineering fundamental of dimensional homogeneity.
  5. To learn and apply the principle or engineering fundamental of conservation of mass and continuity.
  6. To learn and apply the principle or engineering fundamental of energy.
  7. To learn and apply the principle or engineering fundamental of momentum.
  8. Emphasis will be placed on problem solving, and analyzing both data and variables to generate numerical as well as theoretical solutions.