The exhaustive list of topics in Fluid Mechanics in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:
- Process fluid mechanics
- Dimensions and units
- SI units
- Fundamental concepts:
- Definition of a fluid
- Continuum hypothesis
- Velocity field
- Stress field
- Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids
- Fluid statics:
- Pressure variation in a static fluid
- Hydrostatic forces on submerged surfaces
- Buoyancy
- Illustration by examples
- Macroscopic Balances:
- Derivation of integral balances for mass
- Energy and momentum
- Derivation of engineering Bernoulli equation with losses.
- Application of macroscopic balances:
- Losses in expansion
- Force on a reducing bend
- Diameter of a free jet
- Jet ejector.
- Differential balances of fluid flow:
- Derivation of continuity and momentum (Navier-Stokes) equations for a Newtonian fluid.
- Applications to plane Couette
- Plane Poiseuille and pipe flows.
- Dimensional analysis and similitude:
- Buckingham Pi theorem and applications
- High-Reynolds number flows:
- Inviscid flows and potential flows
- Boundary layer theory
- Pipe flows and fittings:
- Laminar and turbulent flows
- Friction factor charts
- Losses in fittings
- Flow in manifolds
- Flow past immersed bodies:
- Flow past a sphere and other submerged objects
- Flow through packed beds and fluidized beds
- Agitation and mixing:
- Power consumption
- Mixing times
- Scale up
- Flow measurement:
- Orifice meter
- Venturi meter
- Pitot tube
- Rotameters.
- Non-conventional methods:
- Laser Doppler velocimetry
- Particle image velocimetry
- Ultrasonic flow meters
- Electromagnetic flow meters.
- Fluid transportation:
- Valves and Pumps and Compressors
- Non-Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids
- Viscometry
- Turbulent flows