10.301. Fluid Mechanics. Spring 2002

Lecture TR11 (66-110)

Recitation M10(66-148) or M11 (56-154) or M9(26-210) or M12(66-156)

 

Instructors

  

Professor Howard Brenner

Professor Kenneth Beers

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MIT Chemical Engineering

MIT Chemical Engineering

Office Hours : T 1-3, 66-562

Office Hours : F 9-11, 66-558

Room 66-562, 617-253-6687, hbrenner@mit.edu

Room 66-558, 617-258-8986, kbeers@mit.edu

 

Teaching Assistants

Kevin Dorfman

Michelle Wu

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MIT Chemical Engineering

MIT Chemical Engineering

Office Hours : W 4-7, 66, 3rd floor glass house

Office Hours : M 4-7, 66-156

kdorfman@mit.edu

Room 66-253, wum@mit.edu

 

Course Description

Introduces the mechanical principles governing fluid flow. Stress in a fluid. Conservation of mass and momentum, using differential and integral balances. Elementary constitutive equations. Hydrostatics. Exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. Approximate solutions using control volume analysis. Mechanical energy balances and Bernoulli's equations. Dimensional analysis and dynamic similarity. Introduces boundary-layer theory and turbulence.

 

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Internet Links for Fluid Mechanics

 

Drawings of Water Flow and Siphon Effect, Codex Leicester, Leonardo da Vinci, 1506-1510. Images from corbis.com and Yahoo! Pictures