BoBoCoAe, TAS & Ventus Publishing ApS, 2012. 140 p. ISBN:8740301144, 9788740301144The book tackles the many laws and principles in a very clear and easy way describing the pertinent parameters that control the particular situation. The book is complimented by many worked examples, tutorial problems to help students get further practice in problem solving, a typical examination paper, and finally presents a case study of a typical hydropower plant.Fluid Mechanics is an essential subject in the study of the behaviour of fluids equally when at rest and when in motion whether a house hold application such as the mains water supply, the natural gas supply or industrial such as the design of the body of an automotive car, airplane, train or the provision of electricity from a hydropower plant.Contents
Notation
Fluid Statics
Fluid Properties
Pascal’s Law
Flu Id-Static Law
Pressure Measurement
Centre of pressure & the Metacentre
Resultant Force and Centre of Pressure on a Curved Surface In a Static Fluid
Buoyancy
Stability of floating bodies
Tutorial problems
Internal Fluid Flow
Definitions
Conservation of Mass
Conservation of Energy
Flow Measurement
Flow Regimes
Darcy Formula
The Friction factor and Moody diagram
Flow Obstruction Losses
Fluid Power
Fluid Momentum
Tutorial Problems
External Fluid Flow
Regimes of External Flow
Drag Coefficient
The Boundary Layer
Worked Examples
Tutorial Problems
Compressible Fluid Dynamics
Compressible flow definitions
Derivation of the Speed of sound In fluids
The Mach number
Compressibility Factor
Energy equation for frlctlonless adiabatic gas processes
Stagnation properties of compressible flow
Worked Examples
Tutorial Problems - Compressible Flow
Hydroelectric Power
Introduction
Types of hydraulic turbines
Performance evaluation of Hydraulic Turbines
Pumped storage hydroelectrlclty
Worked Examples
Tutorial Problems
Sample Examination paper
Formulae Sheet
