UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Dr. Bagheri ENG 103-Fluid Mechanics Fall 2019

CATALOG DATA: Credit: 4 units

Theory and fundamental principles of incompressible fluid flows. Topics include hydrostatic fluids, continuity, momentum,
and Bernoulli equations for control volumes, dimensional analysis, viscous duct flows, boundary layer flows, centrifugal and
axial flow pumps, and pump performance curves and similarity rules.

COURSE PREREQUISITE:
ENG 35 (Statics), MAT 22B (Differential Equations), PHY 9B (Classical Physics)

TEXTBOOK:
Fluid Mechanics, 8th Edition by Frank M. White, McGraw-Hill Publisher (ISBN 978-0-07-339827-3)

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. To provide a fundamental knowledge of the laws of fluid motion.
2. To understand the physical processes involved in fluid motion.
3. To enhance students’ engineering problem solving, modeling, and analysis abilities.
4. To enable students to advance to any fields related to thermal fluid systems.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Students will be able to:
1. Calculate pressure forces on submerged surfaces and explain and apply manometer measurement of pressures,
2. Derive and solve mass conservation, momentum, and energy equations for steady-state or unsteady fluid flow
systems,
3. Use dimensional analysis to describe non-dimensional parameters for fluid equations of motion or similarity
between different conditions,
4. Use differential continuity and momentum equations and material derivatives,
5. Model fully developed laminar and turbulent pipe flow systems, and
6. Calculate the forces exerted by a fluid on a submerged body in motion.

COURSE EVALUATION METHODS:

I. Homework (15%), II. Quizzes (15%, three quizzes), III. Two Midterm Exams (40%), IV. Final Exam (30%)

GADING RANGES:
96≤ A+ ≤100, 90≤ A <96, 87≤ A- <90, 84≤ B+ <87, 80≤ B <84, 75≤ B- <80, 70≤ C+ <75, 65≤ C <70, 60≤ C- <65,
57≤ D+ <60, 54≤ D <57, F<54

CLASS TIME: Monday/Wednesday 6:10-8:00 pm, Giedt Hall 1001

OFFICE HOURS: 5:30-6:10 pm and 8:00-8:30 pm M/W by appointment before or after class time. Other times can be
arranged in advanced. Additional office hours will be announced before quizzes/exams.

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:
1) Peng Wei, penwei@ucdavis.edu, Office Hour: R 11:00-12:00 am TB 207, Room-110
2) Peter Shi, maeshi@ucdavis.edu, Office Hour: F: 10:00-10:50 am, TB 207, Room 110
3) Yuki Tsuzuki, ytsuzuki@ucdavis.edu, Office Hour: F: 11:00-12:00 am, TB 207, Room 110
4) Jessica Shum, jgshum@ucdavis.edu, Office Hour: R: 9:00-9:50 am, TB 207, Room 110

PERSONAL CONTACT: nbagheri@csum.edu

COURSE STRUCTURE:
Homework assignments are made on a weekly basis and they are to be turned in digitally to Canvas site. The TAs will
announce the due dates. Late HW will be accepted with 10% penalty up to two days after the due dates. They won’t be
accepted after the end of the second late day. Answer sheets along with the key parts of the assigned problems are provided
and posted to help with problem solving. Additionally, numerous example problems from and out of the textbook are
discussed in class to enhance students’ understanding of the topics covered. It is the students’ responsibility to know about the
assigned problems and the due dates. This information is made available in class. There is a total of three quizzes, two exams,
and a final exam. Quiz and exam schedules are given below, and they can’t be made up. The dates are, however, subject to
change. Quizzes are about 30-40 minutes long. Quizzes and exams are closed materials with the exception of one 8.5” by 11”
page handwritten notes, double sided. Three 8.5” by 11” pages (double sided) are allowed for the final exam.
 Course Outline (subject to change)
Session # Session Date Chapter/Topic Homework (8th)

1-W 9/25/19 Chapter 1: Introduction 9, 10, 26, 38, 45

The Concept of a Fluid 48, 73, 75
Dimensions and Units Due 10/7
Properties of the Velocity Field
Thermodynamic Properties of a Fluid
Viscosity and Other Secondary Properties
Flow Patterns

2-M 9/30/19 Chapter 2: Pressure Distribution in a Fluid 13, 15, 18, 23, 31
Pressure and Pressure Gradient 35
Equilibrium of a Fluid Element Set#1, Due 10/14
Hydrostatic Pressure Distributions
Application to Manometry

3-W 10/2/19 Hydrostatic Forces on Plane Surfaces 55, 58, 61, 64, 65
Hydrostatic Forces on Curved Surfaces Set#2, Due 10/14

4-M 10/7/19 Hydrostatic Forces on Curved Surfaces 82, 83, 85, 94,
Hydrostatic Forces in Layered Fluids 112, 117
Buoyancy and Stability Set#3, Due 10/16

5-W 10/9/19 Chapter 3: Integral Relations for a Control Volume 16, 18, 22, 35,
Basic Physical Laws of Fluid Mechanics 50, 54, 70, 77
The Reynolds Transport Theorem Set#1, Due 10/23
Conservation of Mass

6-M 10/14/19 Conservation of Mass 121, 174, 176

Linear Momentum Equation 184, 185
Quiz #1 on Chapter 2 (HW Sets 1&2) Set#2, Due 10/28

7-W 10/16/19 Energy and Bernoulli Equations

Applications to Bernoulli Equation

8-M 10/21/19 Chapter 4: Differential Relations for a Fluid Particle 2, 4, 12, 21, 27
The Acceleration Field of a Fluid 47, 57, 63
The Differential Equation of Mass Conservation (Due 11/4)
The Differential Equations of Linear Momentum/Energy

9-W 10/23/19 Differential equations of motion

Cartesian/cylindrical systems
Quiz #2 on Chapter 3, HW Set #1

10-M 10/28/19 Exam I, 20%, Closed Materials Chapters 1, 2, 3

11-W 10/30/19 Boundary Conditions for the Basic Equations

The Stream Function
Vorticity and Irrotationality
Velocity Potential

12-M 11/4/19 Chapter 5: Dimensional Analysis and Similarity 5, 16, 18, 25, 49,
The Principle of Dimensional Homogeneity 51, 66, 80
The Pi Theorem Due 11/13
13-W 11/6/19 Non-Dimensionalization of the Basic Equations
Modeling

14-M 11/11/19 Veterans Day

15-W 11/13/19 Chapter 6: Viscous Flows in Ducts 11, 52, 55, 67, 69
Reynolds-Number Regimes Set#1, Due 11/20
Internal Versus External Viscous Flows
Head Loss-The Friction Factor

16-M 11/18/19 Laminar and Turbulent Flows

Types of Pipe Flow Problems/Examples

17-W 11/20/19 Flow in Noncircular Ducts 80, 87, 105, 111

Minor Losses in Pipe Systems Set#2, Due 11/25
Multiple-Pipe Systems
Quiz #3 on Chapter 6, HW Set #1

18-M 11/25/19 Exam II, 20%, Closed Materials Chapters 4, 5, 6

19-W 11/27/19 Chapter 7: Flow Past Immersed Bodies 6, 16, 31, 62,
Reynolds-Number and Geometry Effects 80, 87, 88, 90
Momentum Integral Estimates Due 12/4
The Boundary Layer Equations

20-M 12/2/19 The Flat Plate Boundary layer

Boundary Layers with Pressure Flows
Experimental External Flow

21-W 12/4/19 Chapter 11: Turbomachinery 27, 38, 43, 54, 70

Centrifugal Pumps Due 12/10
Pump Performance Curves and Similarity Rules
Mixed and Axial Flow Pumps
Specific Speed
Matching Pumps to System Characteristics

Comprehensive Final Exam: Tuesday December 10, 2019: 8:30 pm