Fluid Mechanics

3 ECTS credits
84 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1019073BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Alvorens men kan inschrijven voor 'Stromingsmechanica' moet men geslaagd zijn voor 'Wiskunde voor signalen en systemen'.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

Department

Industriële ingenieurswetenschappen

Educational team

Gulliver Van Essche
Imran Mohammad
Mark Runacres (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

22 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals

Course Content

Lectures:

This course provides the basic knowledge of fluid mechanics that is required to understand applications (such as pumps, compressors, turbines, nozzles, systems of conduits, flow around objects) that are treated in other courses in the programme. The course is made up of the following parts:

Basic principles of fluid mechanics
Hydrostatics
Frictionless incompressible flow
Bernoulli's law and its extensions
Internal flow in pipes
Reynolds number, laminar and turbulent flow
Conservation laws
External flows over objects – lift and drag
Isentropic nozzle flow

Practical exercises:

During the practical exercise sessions students solve problems under supervision.

The selected problems are a direct application of knowledge and concepts gained in the lectures.

Course material

Handbook (Recommended) : Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences, Cengel - Cimbala - Ghajar, 6de, McGraw-Hill, 9781260597585, 2021
Course text (Required) : Stromingsmechanica, M. Runacres, VUB, 2220170011264, 2024
Handbook (Recommended) : Fluid Mechanics, Fundamentals and Applications, Y.A. Çengel, J.M. Cimbala, 4de, McGraw-Hill, 9789813157880, 2020
Handbook (Recommended) : Munson's Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, Gerhart - Gerhart - Hochstein, 9de, John Wiley & Sons, 9781119703266, 2021
Handbook (Recommended) : Applied Fluid Mechanics, R. L. Mott, 7de, Pearson Prentice Hall, 9781292019611, 2015

Additional info

Description tutoring: after class, by appointment or via e-mail.

Learning Outcomes

Objectives

D1: knows the basic principles and basic physical laws of fluid mechanics (BaLO 1)

D2: knows and understands the meaning and the uses of the Reynolds number (BaLO 1, 2, 3)

D3: applies the basic physical laws to processes of flow (BaLO 1, 2, BaSLO 14 EM)

D4: can calculate the flow in systems of conduits (BaLO 1, 2, 3, 5, BaSLO 14 EM)

D5: can calculate the forces of the flow on an object (BaLO 1, 2, 5, 9, BaSLO 14 EM)

D6: can calculate the flow through a nozzle (BaLO 1, 2, 3, 5, BaSLO 14 EM)

AD1: reasons and acts in a structured and systematic manner (BaLO 9)

AD2: communicates in understandable and well-structured Dutch (BaLO 10, 11)

AD3: develops a professional attitude (BaLO 9, 10, 13)

Learning outcomes

BaLO_1 To possess in-depth, application-oriented knowledge, understanding and practical skills related to mathematics and science, directed towards engineering applications.
BaLO_2 To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills about engineering sciences and engineering techniques.
BaLO_3 To solve practical engineering problems from an understanding of the basic theory and from an understanding of basic methods for the schematisation and modelling of processes or systems.
BaLO_5 To effectively look up scientific and technical information, to evaluate and process such information and to refer to it correctly.
BaLO_9 To demonstrate an engineering attitude: attention to planning, to technical, economic and societal factors as well as managerial implications, assessment of the risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, being result-driven and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
BaLO_10 To correctly handle the scientific and discipline-specific terminology in language relevant to the programme.
BaLO_11 To present and communicate the results of technical and scientific work, in writing, orally and visually.
BaLO_13 To act in an ethical and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.
BaSLO_14-EM To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills in the broad field of engineering sciences and engineering techniques for electromechanical engineering.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Other exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Note: Exam time 1st session:
Lectures and Practical exercises: written exam: 100% (not transferred to the 2nd session)
Exam time 2nd session:
Lectures and Practical exercises: written exam: 100%

Additional info regarding evaluation

Not applicable.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context