Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

Lecture  
Date and time: Monday, 11.30 - 12.15
Location: SN 20.1
Start:  
Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. David E. Rival
  Exam Dates
Tutorial  
Date and time: Monday, 11.30 - 12.15
Location: SN 20.1
Start:  
Tutor: Christian Breitenstein, M.Sc.
Consultation hour  
Date and time: By appointment
Location: By appointment
Contact: Christian Breitenstein, M.Sc.

Course Objective

The students obtain fundamental knowledge in the continuum analysis of fluids. The student know suited simplifications of equations of motion and analytical and empirical solution methods. The students are able to relate application oriented problems of fluid mechanics to analytical, empirical and mathematical models and to solve the associated mathematical relations.

 

Course Content

  • General characteristics of fluids
  • Stream filament theory for incompressible and compressible fluids
  • Equations of motion for multidimensional flows, applications of momentum equation
  • Viscous flows, Navier-Stokes equations, boundary layer theory
  • Class room experiments: tube flow, transition laminar/turbulent, flows over airfoils and blunt bodies

 

Exam preparation

We offer additional consultation hours in advance of the exam. More information is available here.

The exam consists of four parts:

1- Short questions to check understanding of theory

2- Application of the Bernoulli-Equation

3- Application of the Momentum Equation

4- Viscous flows

The last week of lecture/tutorial is used as preparation for the exam, using examples of similar difficulty to the exam tasks. Furthermore, the institute publishes the exam tasks of the last years, please see below. You need to log in in order to download them.

Copies of lecture presentations

(accessible only for logged in students)

ISM Linienzug

Navier-Stokes- und GS-Gleichung

Exercise materials
(accessible only for logged in students)

Hydrostatic

H01         H02        H03        H04         H05        H06

 

Bernoulli equation

B01        B02        B03        B04        B05        B06        B07        B08        B09        B10

B11        B12        B13        B14        B15        B16        B17        B18        B19        B20

B21

Momentum Law

I01         I02         I03         I04         I05         I06         I07         I08         I09         I10

I11         I12         I13         I14         I15

 

Frictional Flows

R01        R02        R03        R04        R05        R06        R07        R08        R09        R10

R11        R12        R13        R14        R15        R16        R17        R18        R19        R20

R21        R22        R23        R24        R25        R26        R27

Old exams

  WS2023- Aufgabenteil                SS2022-TakeHome (Type 1)        SS2022-TakeHome (Type 2) 

WS2022-TakeHome (Type 1)       WS2022-TakeHome (Type 2)       SS2021-TakeHome (Type 1)

SS2021-TakeHome (Type 2)         WS2021-TakeHome (Type 1)      WS2021-TakeHome (Type 2)

SS2020 - Aufgabenteil                  WS2019 - Aufgabenteil                SS2019 - Aufgabenteil       

WS2018 - Aufgabenteil                 SS2018 - Aufgabenteil                 WS2017 - Aufgabenteil          

SS2017 - Aufgabenteil                  WS2016 - Aufgabenteil                SS2016 - Aufgabenteil         

WS2015 - Aufgabenteil                SS2015 - Aufgabenteil                  WS2014 - Aufgabenteil     

SS2014 - Aufgabenteil                  WS2013 - Aufgabenteil                SS2013 - Aufgabenteil    

WS2012 - Aufgabenteil                SS2012 - Aufgabenteil                  WS2011 - Aufgabenteil          

SS2011 - Aufgabenteil                 WS2010 - Aufgabenteil                 SS2010 - Aufgabenteil       

WS2009 - Aufgabenteil 1            WS2009 - Aufgabenteil 2              SS2009 - Aufgabenteil       

WS2008 - Aufgabenteil               SS2008 - Aufgabenteil                   WS2007 - Aufgabenteil