Curtin Engineering, Curtin University of Technology

2nd Year Fluid Mechanics (ENGR2000) Semester 1, 2016

UNIT DELIVERY LECTURES (1.5 HOURS EACH) AND TUTORIALS
As at 23rd March updated weekly
Note 1:

Entries in slant font are anticipated activities these can change as a result of student needs and
lecture pace as we progress through the semester. Entries in vertical (standard) font are actual.

Note 2:

The tuition-week numbering used below is the lecture week (i.e. the teaching week) and the
number sequence therefore does not include tuition-free weeks; accordingly there are 6 teaching
weeks in Part A and 6 in Part B of this unit.

PART A: Teaching Weeks 1-6

Tuition
Week

Lecture
No.
1

1
2

3
2
4

5
3
6

7
4
8
5

Topics Covered
(or to be covered in slant font)
Unit Outline
Chapter 1:
Flow fields, streamline eqn.
Chapter 1:
Newtons law of viscosity,
laminar/turbulent flows; Reynolds
number
Chapter 1:
completion - laminar/turbulent flows;
Reynolds number
Chapter 2:
H/statics intro, nature of pressure,
manometer & pressure derivation
Chapter 2:
Hydrostatic forces on vertical structures
and on arbitrary structures.

Suggested Tutorial Activity

(or proposed subject to change)
Tutorial Sheet # 1:
Q1 (discussion of flow fields) &
Q2 (streamlines)

Tutorial Sheet # 1: Q2
(Streamlines), Q4 (Newtons law
of Viscosity) (NB example similar
to Q3 already covered in Lecture
#2)

Chapter 2::
Buoyancy + stability of floating
structures
Tutorial Sheet # 2:
Chapter 3.
Hydrostatics Q1, Q2 (& possibly
Introduction to control volumes
Q3)
Chapter 3:
Mass conservation equation + one board
example
Chapter 3:
Mass conservation equation summary +
two board examples
Tutorial Sheet #3: Mass
Chap 3. Momentum video, then
Conservation Q3 and Q4
Momentum Eqn. + lecture-notes
(unsteady)
examples
Chapter 3: Momentum Eqn. summary, +
three board examples.
st
1 Tuition-free week following Easter weekend
Mid-semester test on content of
Tutorial Sheet #4: Momentum
Chapters 1 and 2 and Mass
Eqn. Q2, Q5, Q6 (Last question
conservation in Chapter 3
Wake-traverse method)

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11
6
12

Chapter 4:
Bernoulli Eqn. Derivation
Chapter 4:
Bernoulli Eqn. Applications, Effect of
streamline curvature
Chapter 5:
Applications of Mass Conservation,
Momentum Eqn. and BE Eqn.
2nd Tuition-free week

Tutorial Sheet # 5
Bernoulli Eqn. Q2, Q5: