MAE 101A Introductory Fluid Mechanics

Announcements

• NEW: Your Midterm 2 exam is available on Canvas, please check Comments under the Midterm 2 Assignment.
  
  If you have general questions regardng your exam, please email me. For grading questions on Problem 1, please email TA Reiley. For grading questions on Problem 2, please email TA Scott. If requesting regrade: be sure to be clear and specific - we have your exams but if needed to be clear, email pdf of exam page and annotate your question/issue with color.
  
  Please email (do not reply to comments on Canvas) any regrade requests by 6:00p Sunday 3/22.
  
  
• NEW: Thank you all for doing CAPE evaluations for this class - the response rate was 87.4%! So after your lowest HW score is dropped, the next lowest score will become 100%.
  
  

Homework Assignments

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 1:00-2:00pm (or by appointment)

Teaching Assistants

Scott Carlson
email: slcarlso@ucsd.edu

Reiley Weekes
email: rweekes@eng.ucsd.edu

Discussion Sessions: Thur 9:00-10:00am, 11:00am-12:00pm (370 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

Munson, Young, and Okiishi's Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
P.M. Gerhart, A.L. Gerhart, J.I. Hochstein
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Eighth Edition (eText 2019)
(Will be on reserve at S&E Library)

Homework

• Homework will be assigned each week and collected on Canvas at specified due date/time. Late homework will not be accepted under any circumstances.
• Homework must follow specific requirements. See Homework Assignment Requirements.
  
• Homework solutions and scores will be posted on Canvas.
  
• Homework re-grade requests: submit a written statement detailing the justification for the re-grade. Email regrade request to TA Reiley (indicate in Subject line: MAE 101A HW# Regrade Request and include your full name in the email). 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.


• Thur 9:00-10:00am, 11:00am-12:00noon (370 EBUII).
  
  

Grading

• Homework (lowest dropped) - 10%
• Midterm Exams (2) - 60%
• Final Exam - 30%

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 2020

Week	Topic	Text
1/7	Introduction, Basic Concepts	Ch 1
1/14	Fluid Statics	Ch 2
	Pressure Variation, Manometry
	Hydrostatic Forces, Buoyancy
1/21	Elementary Fluid Dynamics	Ch 3
	Newton's Second Law
	Bernoulli Equation
1/28	Fluid Kinematics	Ch 4
	Flow field descriptions
	Reynolds Transport Theorem
2/4	Control Volume (Integral) Analysis	Ch 5
	Conservation of Mass and Momentum
	Applications
	MIDTERM I
2/11	Differential Analysis	Ch 6
	Kinematics of a Fluid Element
	Conservation of Mass and Momentum
2/18	Differential Analysis, cont.	" "
	Viscous Flow - Navier-Stokes Equations, Simple Solutions
	Inviscid Flow - Euler's Equation, Bernoulli Equation
2/25	Differential Analysis, cont.	" "
	Inviscid 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)