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News and Overview
Course News
- [2012/02/27] Starting with today, the weekly assignments will be posted on the Assignments page, every Monday, due the following Monday. One question on the assignments will be marked on a simple scale 0-3 and the solutions will be posted the following week.
- [2012/02/04] Quiz 1 is scheduled for February 8th, 4:30 to 6:00 (90 min duration), in Kingston Hall 201 - the same place and time of the MECH341 tutorial. I posted the Quiz 1 with solutions from 2009 and 2010 for you to practice, along with a series of supplementary solved problems from White. Please, disregard the similarity/dimensional analysis from the past quizzes, since we are not covering this anymore in 341 (it's been covered in 241). The lectures in the table of Lecture Notes are now supplemented with the corresponding sections of White and Munson et al textbooks. The correspondence is not always perfect but is very close. The quiz is a closed book exam. You are allowed one letter-sized, double-sided, hand-written formula sheet.
- [2012/01/17] All classes (lectures and tutorials) are moved from Chernoff Auditorium to Kingston Hall 201.
- [2012/01/11] There will be no tutorial in the first week of classes, i.e. on Jan. 11th.
- [2012/01/10] Welcome to the Mech 341, winter 2012 web page. Some sections are still under construction. Stay tuned.
Overview
This course will build on the material given in Mech 241. The new material covered in this course is of practical nature. Where possible, the new material will be related to fluid mechanics devices such as aerofoils, nozzles and diffusers, and turbomachines.
Textbook: Frank White, Fluid Mechanics, Sixth or Seventh edition, McGraw Hill
Topics introduced include:
- Integral and differential forms of governing equations
- Scaling and similarity
- inviscid/potential flow
- External flows and boundary layers
- lift and drag
- compressible flow