Fluid Mechanics Lecture Notes by Dr Aleksander Nospal
Fluid Mechanics Lecture Notes by Dr Aleksander Nospal
Fluid Mechanics Lecture Notes by Dr Aleksander Nospal
This note describes introduction to fluid mechanics, Statics of fluids,
Kinematics of flow, Dynamics of inviscid fluid flow, Some elementary flows of
inviscid fluid, Some fundamentals concept of viscous fluid flow, Basic
consideration of experimental fluid mechanics, Methods and examples of applied
fluid mechanics.
These lecture notes provide a introduction to fluid mechanics, aimed
at undergraduates. The contents in this page are as follows : Introduction and
Inviscid Flows, The Navier-Stokes Equation, Waves, Instabilities, Turbulence.
The course
provides a survey of continuum fluid mechanics. Part I gives an extensive
development of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Part II focuses on
their solution in various limits: vorticity dynamics, compressible flow,
potential flow, and viscous laminar flow. The emphasis is on fluid physics and
the mathematics necessary to efficiently describe the physics.
Author(s): Joseph M. Powers, Department of
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame