CHE 5012D - Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics

• The student will be able to calculate static pressure for various manometers.
• The student will be able to find the drag coefficient for simple flow-over-immersed body problems.
• The student will be able to obtain the friction factor from Moody chart or correlations.
• The student will be able to obtain the stream function and potential function for a given velocity vector.
• The student will be able to relate a mass balance with the equation of continuity.
• The student will be able to related the Bernoulli equation to an energy balance.
• The student will be able to simplify the Navier-Stokes equations to solve for some simple laminar flow problems to get velocity and flow rate analytically.
• The student will be able to solve nonlinear algebraic equations from fluid mechanics using trial-and-error.
• The student will be able to use Newton¿s law of viscosity to calculate shear stress and relate shear stress with momentum flux.
• The student will be able to use the Bernoulli equation to solve various flow problems without friction loss.
• The student will be able to use the Pi Theorem to reduce the number of parameters.
• The student will be able to use the extended Bernoulli equation to solve various flow problems with friction loss.
• The student will be able to write a technical report for a lab project.