Fluid

Mechanics
Presentation
OFFCDT TALHA KHAN
Table of Contents
•The Reynolds Number
•Internal and External Flow
•Laminar and Turbulent Flow
•Navier Stokes Equation
•The Boundary Layer
•My Project Idea
The Reynolds Number

This is a dimensionless number that dictates The higher the Re, the more turbulent the
what the flow is going to look like. flow becomes.
 Internal and External Flow
• An internal flow is surrounded by solid boundaries that can
restrict the development of its boundary layer, for example, a
pipe flow.
• An external flow, on the other hand, are flows over bodies
immersed in an unbounded fluid so that the flow boundary
layer can grow freely in one direction.
 Laminar and Turbulent Flow
Laminar flow is the orderly arranged flow with all the particles
moving in their own layers.
Turbulent flow is like a chaotic flow in which due to high
Reynolds Number, the fluid layers start to mix in together. It is
very difficult to solve these by hand so a lot of tools using
numerical methods are used.
Navier Stokes Equation
Incompressible NS Eq

This equation is solved numerically by the CFD solvers to get solutions that are fulfilling our
boundary conditions.
In its general form, the equation does not have any analytical solution and is one of the million
dollar equations.
The Boundary Layer
•Two main forces act on fluid particle, inertial
and viscous forces.
•Outside the boundary layer, the flow
becomes uniform flow, so the viscous forces
only act inside the boundary layer. Outside it
the flow can be assumed as inviscid.

For laminar For turbulent

My Project Idea
I am trying to model a flow over a bump(external flow) with the following inputs,
Position x and y, Reynolds number of incoming flow Re.
The outputs should be the velocity and pressure profile over the bump at every point.

v Pressure and
Model velocity
distribution
𝑅𝑒=𝑝 ∗v∗d / μ  
Questions?