"Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them."
Study of how fluids (liquids and gases) behave under different conditions.
Introduction to Fluid Mechanics: This topic covers the basic concepts of fluid mechanics, including the definition of fluids, fluid properties, and the different types of fluids.
Fluid Statics: This topic focuses on the behavior of fluids at rest, including pressure measurement, forces on submerged surfaces, buoyancy, and stability.
Fluid Kinematics: This topic deals with the study of fluid motion without considering the forces that cause the motion, including types of fluid flow, velocity and acceleration fields, and streamlines.
Fluid Dynamics: This topic covers the study of fluids in motion, including the forces that cause motion and the resulting effects, such as flow rate and pressure drop.
Bernoulli's Equation: This equation is a fundamental concept of fluid mechanics that relates fluid pressure, fluid velocity, and potential energy.
Viscosity: This topic covers the properties and effects of fluid viscosity, including the definitions of viscosity, viscosity measurement, and the relationship between viscosity and flow resistance.
Reynolds Number: Reynolds number is a dimensionless quantity that is used to predict the onset of turbulence in a fluid flow.
Laminar and Turbulent Flow: This topic deals with the different types of fluid flow and the conditions that cause them, including the definitions of laminar and turbulent flow, and the Reynolds number.
Boundary Layers: This topic covers the thin layer of fluid near a surface that behaves in a different manner than the rest of the fluid, including laminar and turbulent boundary layers.
Compressible Flow: This topic deals with the effects of compressibility on fluid flow, including the definitions of sonic and supersonic flow, as well as the critical flow conditions.
Fluid Drag: This topic covers the forces that oppose the movement of a fluid through a medium, including the forces of friction and pressure drag.
Pumps and Turbines: This topic covers the design and operation of these devices, including the different types of pumps and turbines, and their uses in industry.
Pipe Flow: This topic deals with the behavior of fluids in conduits, including the Bernoulli equation, energy losses, and pipe sizing.
Open Channel Flow: This topic covers the behavior of fluids in open channels, including the different types of channels, flow rates, and hydraulic jumps.
Flow Measurement: This topic deals with the different techniques and instruments used to measure fluid flow rate and velocity.
Aerodynamics: Deals with the motion of gases, specifically air, and how it affects objects that move through it.
Hydrodynamics: Deals with the study of fluids in motion, including liquids and gases.
Heat Transfer: Concerned with the transfer of thermal energy from one body to another through conduction, convection, or radiation.
Rheology: Deals with the flow of fluids with suspensions, slurries, emulsions, and non-Newtonian fluids.
Turbulence: The study of highly chaotic flows, often characterized by swirling and eddying motion.
Multiphase Flow: Involved in the study of systems with more than one phase of fluid in motion, such as gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, or gas-liquid-solid systems.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): A methodology for solving fluid flow problems with the use of computer algorithms and numerical simulations.
Fluid Dynamics: The study of the motion and behavior of fluids in general, including their physical properties, their behavior in different conditions, and their interactions with solids or other fluids.
Fluid Statics: Concerned with the behavior of fluids at rest, including the pressure distribution over surfaces and the hydrostatic pressure distribution within fluids.
Flow Measurement: Concerned with the measurement of fluid flow rates in pipes, ducts, or other confined spaces.
Hydrology: A subfield of fluid mechanics that deals with the study of water in natural systems including the distribution, circulation, and behavior of water in the environment.
Piping Design: The design of complex piping systems integrating fluid flow, heat transfer, and fluid properties, etc.
"It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, and biomedical engineering, as well as geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, astrophysics, and biology."
"It can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest; and fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion."
"It is a branch of continuum mechanics, a subject which models matter without using the information that it is made out of atoms; that is, it models matter from a macroscopic viewpoint rather than from microscopic."
"Fluid mechanics, especially fluid dynamics, is an active field of research, typically mathematically complex."
"Many problems are partly or wholly unsolved and are best addressed by numerical methods, typically using computers."
"A modern discipline, called computational fluid dynamics (CFD), is devoted to this approach."
"Particle image velocimetry, an experimental method for visualizing and analyzing fluid flow, also takes advantage of the highly visual nature of fluid flow."
"Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas)."
"It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, and biomedical engineering."
"It can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest."
"It can be divided into... fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion."
"Yes, fluid mechanics involves studying fluids at rest through fluid statics."
"Yes, fluid mechanics has applications in astrophysics."
"Yes, fluid mechanics has applications in oceanography."
"Fluid mechanics models matter from a macroscopic viewpoint rather than from microscopic."
"Yes, particle image velocimetry is an experimental method for visualizing and analyzing fluid flow."
"Many problems are best addressed by numerical methods, typically using computers."
"Fluid mechanics is a branch of continuum mechanics, which models matter without using the information that it is made out of atoms."
"Fluid mechanics, especially fluid dynamics, is an active field of research."