Syllabus
Fluid properties – fluid statics – fluid kinematics: material derivative, rotation, deformation – Reynolds transport theorem – physical conservation laws – integral and differential formulations – Navier-Stokes and energy equations – exact solution of Navier-Stokes equations: steady and unsteady flows – potential flows: basic flow patterns, superposition – waves in fluids – boundary layer theory: momentum integral approach, Blasius solution – introduction to turbulence.
Text Books
1. Kundu, P. K., Cohen, I. M., and Dowling. D. R., Fluid Mechanics, 5th ed., Academic Press (2012).
References
1. White, F. M., Fluid Mechanics, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill (2011).
2. Munson, B. R., D. F. Young, T. H. Okiishi, and W. W. Huebsch, Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, 6th ed., John Wiley (2009).
3. Panton, R. L., Incompressible Flow, 3rd ed., John Wiley (2005).
4. Leal, L. G., Advanced Transport Phenomena, Cambridge Univ. Press (2007).