Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS CreditsLast Updated Date
4CE272Fluid Mechanics3+0+03429.07.2024
Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program Civil Engineering
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Compulsory
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course To enable students to know the fundamentals of Engineering fluid mechanics and hydraulics. As well as to know how to deal with its problems in civil engineering.
Course Content This course gives the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and their application to engineering problems and includes the study of behavior of viscous and non-viscous fluids at rest and in motion through development and application of the principles of fluid statics, continuity, energy, momentum, similitude, and dimensional analysis. The topics covered in this course throughout the semester include fluid statics; kinematics of fluid flow: continuity equation, stream function, ir-rotational flow velocity potential; fluid dynamics: flow of viscous fluids; newtonian fluids, simple laminar flow systems, turbulence, flow in pipes as well as selected subjects from compressible flow, open channel flow, boundary layer theory.
Course Methods and Techniques
Prerequisites and co-requisities None
Course Coordinator Asist Prof.Dr. Amin Gharehbaghi
Name of Lecturers None
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Lecture notes
Course Notes Applied Fluid Mechanics, 7th edition, 2014 by Robert Mott and Joseph
Untener

Course Category
Mathematics and Basic Sciences %40
Engineering %45
Engineering Design %15

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Mid-terms 1 % 35
Quizzes 2 % 10
Assignment 3 % 15
Final examination 1 % 40
Total
7
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 13 3 39
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 14 3 42
Assignments 3 3 9
Mid-terms 1 2 2
Final examination 1 2 2
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 3 94

 
Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 Define basic terms, values and laws in the area of fluids properties, statics, kinamatics and dynamics of fluids.
2 Describe methods of implementing fluid mechanics laws and phenomena while analysing the operational parameters of hydraulic problems, systems and machines.
3 Calculate and optimise operational parameters of hydraulic problems, systems and machines
4 Select engineering approach to problem solving based on the acquired physics and mathematical knowledge.

 
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Introduction about fluid mechanics
2 Fluid properties
3 Pressure types and measure methods
4 Hydrostatic forces, buoyancy and stability
5 Fluid kinematics
6 Continuty equation and Bernoulli’s equation
7 Pitot tubes, Venturi meter pipes and orifices
8 Midterm Exam
9 Momentum equation and its application
10 Force exerted by a jet striking a flat plate
11 Analysis of flow in pipelines
12 Introduction to Energy loss in pipe flows
13 Design of pipeline diameter and flow rate
14 Steady flow and piping networks system

 
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11
All 5 5 5 5
C1 5 5 5 5
C2 5 5 5 5
C3 5 5 5 5
C4 5 5 5 5

  Contribution: 1: Very Slight 2:Slight 3:Moderate 4:Significant 5:Very Significant