ME – 332 : Fluid Mechanics II

Teaching Schedule

Instructors: Prof S.M.A. Rizvi and Dr. Syed Fahad Anwer

 Units Lecture
No.
Unit 1: Potential flow ( Dr. Syed Fahad Anwer)
1. Usage of Potential Flows (Additional topic) 1
2. Potential Flow Theory 1
• Velocity Potential and Stream Function 2
• Potential Flow Model 2
• The Superposition Principle(Additional topic) 3
3. Properties of a potential flow (Additional topic) 3
4. Elementary Flows 4,5
• Uniform flow. 4
• Line Source / Sink flow 4
• Line Vortex Flow 5
5. Combination of Fundamental Flows 6,7,8
• Doublet 6
• Flow About a Cylinder without Circulation 6
• Flow Past a Source (Rankine half body) 7
• Flow Past a Source and sink (Rankine oval) 7
• Flow Past Vortex (Additional topic) 8
8
• Flow About a Rotating Cylinder
8
• Magnus Effect
8
• Lift in spinning Balls (Additional topic)
9
6. Aerofoil Theory
9
• Kutta Joukowski Theoram
9
• Kutta Condition and its necessity
10
7. Flow Around a Thin Aerofoil
10
8. Generation of Vortices Around a Wing (Additional topic)
10
9. Pressure distribution and Origin of Lift (Additional topic)

Quiz
Home Assignment-1
Unit 2: Viscous Flow (Prof S.M.A. Rizvi) 1
1. Relationship Between stress and strain
2. Stokes Hypothesis
3. NS equation
4. Reynold’s similarity principles
5. Limiting case for Large and Small Re
6. Exact solution of NS equation
• Parallel flows (Couette, Poiseuille, Couette and
Poiseuille)
• Flow through circular pipes
• Flow between rotating cylinders
• Hiemenz Flow
• Flow over a suddenly accelerated oscillating flat plate
Quiz
Home Assignment-1

Unit 3: Two dimensional Boundary layer Flow (Prof

S.M.A. Rizvi)
1. Boundary Layer Scaling
2. Prandtl’s first order BL equations
3. BL along a flat plate
4. Blasius Solution
5. Von-karman momentum integration equation
6. Skin friction
7. Flow separation and Control
Quiz
Home Assignment-2
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Books:
1. Fundamentals of Aerodynamics : J. D Anderson Jr
2. Viscous Fluid Flow : FM White
3. Fluid Mechanics : FM White
4. Introduction to Turbulent flow : Mathieu and Scott
5. Boundary layer theory: H Schilichting
6. Fluid Mechanics: G K Batchelor