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Introduction to Elementary Fluid Mechanics - Click here for background

Key Concepts: In fluid mechanics you analyze fluids at rest (fluid statics) and fluids in motion

(fluid dynamics). The fluid may be a gas (compressible fluid) or a liquid (nearly incompressible).

In a Nut Shell – In elementary fluid mechanics you start by studying fluid properties, fluid

statics (no acceleration of the fluid particles), static pressure distribution, pressure

measurements, and hydrostatics. The more interesting and challenging portion of fluid

mechanics is accelerated fluid motion. As in elementary dynamics, this subject contains two

parts – fluid kinematics and fluid kinetics. Two viewpoints apply to the study of fluid

kinetics – the Eulerian and the Lagrangian viewpoints. An analogy is that of cars passing thru

an intersection. If you ride in each individual car (fluid particle), then you are using the Lagrangian description. If you sit at the intersection and view cars (fluid particles) passing

by, then you are using the Eulerian description. In the elementary course you will apply

the Eulerian description.

Fluid Mechanics

Fluid Statics

Fluid Dynamics

Physical Properties

of Fluids

System of Units

Fluid Kinematics

Static Pressure Distribution

Pressure Measurement

Hydrostatic Forces on

Plane Surfaces

Fluid Kinetics

Finite

Volume

Analysis

Differential

Analysis

Applications

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