1. FLUID MECHANICS
Department of Nuclear Engineering and Fluid Mechanics
University College of Engineering
University of Basque Country (EHU/UPV)
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Instructor: Iñigo Errasti Arrieta

2. CONTENTS
LESSON 1. INTRODUCTION
LESSON 2. FLUID STATICS
LESSON 3. FLUID KINEMATICS
LESSON 4. FLUID DYNAMICS
LESSON 5. THE ENERGY EQUATION
LESSON 6. APPLICATIONS OF BERNOULLI EQUATION
LESSON 7. LINEAR MOMENTUM THEOREM
LESSON 8. DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND SIMILITUDE
LESSON 9. INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOW
LESSON 10. ENERGY LOSSES IN PIPES
LESSON 11. STEADY-STATE FLOW IN PIPES
LESSON 12. TRANSIENT REGIMES IN PIPES
LESSON 13. FLOW THROUGH OPEN CHANNELS
LESSON 14. PUMPS AND TURBINES

3. LESSON 1. INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS
1. Field of application of Fluid Mechanics
2. Brief history of Fluid Mechanics
3. Fluid as a continuum. Fluid definition
4. Dimensions and Units
5. Operators
6. Physical properties of fluids

4. 1. Field of application of Fluid Mechanics
“Fluid Mechanics”, definition
Physical phenomena in nature
Engineering
Other aspects in common life
Main branches:
• Statics
• Kinematics
• Dynamics
• Aerodynamics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

5. 1. Field of application of Fluid Mechanics
Weather & climate
Vehicles
Environment

6. 1. Field of application of Fluid Mechanics
Physiology and medicine
Sports & Recreation

7. 2. Brief history of Fluid Mechanics
Archimedes
Mariotte, Torricelli, Pascal, Castelli
Newton, Bernoulli, Euler, D’Alembert
Chezy, Navier, Coriolis, Darcy
Pouiseuille, Hagen, Reynolds, Stokes
Froude, Francis, Pelton, Herschel
Thomson, Kelvin, Rayleigh, Lamb
Prandtl, von Karman, Blasius
Taylor, Kolmogorov, Nikuradse

8. 2. Brief history of Fluid Mechanics
Archimedes Newton Leibniz Bernoulli Euler
(287-212 BC) (1642-1727) (1646-1716) (1667-1748) (1707-1783)
Navier Stokes Reynolds Prandtl Taylor Kolmogorov
(1785-1836) (1819-1903) (1842-1912) (1875-1953) (1886-1975) (1903-1987)

9. 3. Fluid as a continuum. Definition of fluid
Definition of fluid
Comparison to solid
States of matter (liquid and gas)
Modelling the fluid as a continuum