MAE 101A Introductory Fluid Mechanics

Announcements

• ADDED: FINAL EXAM - Tuesday 3/17, 11:30am-2:29pm. Exam is cumulative. Closed text/notes, no calculator, equation sheets provided (midterm II equation sheet and additions including conservation of mass and momentum in differential form, definition of stream function and velocity potential, elementary plane flows (table 6.2)).
  Classroom Assignments (by last name):
  • A-L: SOLIS 104
  • M-Z: CENTR 216
  
  
• NEW: Some of you asked to repost: Sample midterm 1, Sample midterm 2.
  
  
• If you'd like to watch the film on "Pressure Fields and Fluid Acceleration" again, see YouTube video. For your amusement, check out dolphins and their vortex rings video and related Scientific American article.
  
  

Homework Assignments and Solutions

Course Information

Instructor

Prof. Keiko Nomura
Office: 576 EBUII
Phone: 534-5520
email: knomura@ucsd.edu

Office Hrs: Tue 2:00-3:00 pm, Wed 12:00-1:00pm (or by appointment)

Teaching Assistants

Patrick Folz
email: pfolz@ucsd.edu
Discussion Sessions: Mon 5:00-6:00pm (305 EBUII), Wed 4:00-5:00pm (105 EBUII)

Xuan Zhang
email: xuz011@ucsd.edu
Office Hr: Thu 9:30-10:30 am (105 EBUII)

Course Description

Fluid statics; fluid kinematics; integral and differential forms of the conservation laws for mass, momentum and energy; Bernoulli equation; potential flows; dimensional analysis and similitude. Prerequisites: Phys 2A, Math 20D (or 21D), Math 20E.

See also MAE Standard Course Syllabus and Course Objectives.

Required Textbook

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
R.W. Fox, A.T. McDonald, P.J. Pritchard
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Eighth Edition (2011)
(On reserve at S&E Library)

Homework

• Homework will be assigned each week and collected on specified due date. Late homework will not be accepted under any circumstances.
• Homework must follow specific requirements. See Homework Assignment Requirements.
• Homework re-grade requests: submit a written statement detailing the justification for the re-grade to Prof or TA. Be sure to indicate on statement: your name, date, email address. Re-grades will not be accepted beyond 1 week after return of homework.

TA Discussion Sessions

There will be weekly discussion sessions to discuss student questions and solve sample problems.


• Mon 5:00-6:00pm (305 EBUII), Wed 4:00-5:00 pm (105 EBUII).
  
  

Grading

• Homework (lowest dropped) - 10%
• Midterm Exams (2) - 50%
• Final Exam - 40%

Academic/Professional Integrity

All students are expected to know their responsibilities and uphold the standards of academic honesty and engineering professionalism. Students are encouraged to discuss lecture and homework topics with each other to promote learning. However each student must do and submit their own work on all homework assignments and exams. Submitted work that is copied or taken from an unauthorized source (e.g., another student's work) or performed using unauthorized resources (e.g., calculator programs or notes during exams) is considered cheating. Academic misconduct will have serious penalties and be reported to university administration. Refer to UCSD website for details: UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship.

As Engineering students, it is expected that you operate in a professional manner; refer to: National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Code of Ethics for Engineers.

Tentative Class Schedule - Winter 2015

Week	Topic	Text
1/6	Introduction, Fundamental Concepts	Ch 1,2
	Fluid Properties
1/13	Fluid Statics	Ch 3
	Pressure Variation, Manometry, Hydrostatic Forces, Buoyancy
1/20	Control Volume (Integral) Analysis	Ch 4
	Reynolds Transport Theorem, Conservation of Mass and Momentum
1/27	Control Volume Analysis, cont.	" "
	Applications
2/3	Differential Analysis	Ch 5
	Kinematics of a Fluid Element
	MIDTERM I
2/10	Differential Analysis, cont.	" "
	Conservation of Mass and Momentum, Applications
2/17	Incompressible Inviscid Flow	Ch 6
	Euler's Equation, Bernoulli Equation
2/24	Irrotational Flow	" "
	Potential Flow
3/3	Dimensional Analysis	Ch 7
	Modeling and Similitude
	MIDTERM II
3/10	Dimensional Analysis, cont.	" "
3/17	FINAL EXAM (11:30a-2:29p)