Syllabus
Fluid kinematics – physical conservation laws – review of integral and differential formulations – Navier-Stokes and energy equations – solution of Navier-Stokes equations; steady and unsteady flows – waves in fluids (potential flow formulation) – boundary layer theory; Blasius solution, Falkner-Skan solutions, momentum integral approach – introduction to turbulent flows.
Text Books
Same as Reference
References
1. White, F. M., Viscous Fluid Flow, 3rd ed., McGraw Hill (2006).
2. Panton, R. L., Incompressible Flow, 4th ed., John Wiley (2013).
3. Kundu, P. K., Cohen, I. M., and Dowling, D. R., Fluid Mechanics, 6th ed., Academic Press (2015).
4. Leal, L. G., Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Pro- cesses, Cambridge Univ. Press (2007).
5. Schlichting, H. and Gersten, K., Boundary Layer Theory, 8th ed., McGraw Hill (2001).