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ECE 2203 Fluid Mechanics I

This course aims to teach students about fluid mechanics including fluid properties, pressure, fluid statics, fluid dynamics, and flow measurement. The course content includes topics like pressure gauges, manometers, hydrostatic forces, buoyancy, fluid flow types, continuity equation, velocity, vorticity, Bernoulli's equation, and flow measurement devices. Students will learn through lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions. Assessment will be based on a written exam and continuous assessment of practical experiments involving manometry, forces on submerged surfaces, and flow measurements.

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ECE 2203 Fluid Mechanics I

This course aims to teach students about fluid mechanics including fluid properties, pressure, fluid statics, fluid dynamics, and flow measurement. The course content includes topics like pressure gauges, manometers, hydrostatic forces, buoyancy, fluid flow types, continuity equation, velocity, vorticity, Bernoulli's equation, and flow measurement devices. Students will learn through lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions. Assessment will be based on a written exam and continuous assessment of practical experiments involving manometry, forces on submerged surfaces, and flow measurements.

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ECE 2203 FLUID MECHANICS I

Course aims
The aim of this course is to enable the student to;
1. Understand the nature of fluids and their behavior as distinct from that of solids.
2. Understand fluid static as applicable in manometry and forces in submerged surfaces.
3. Apply Bernoulli’s equation in measurements of fluid flow.

Expected outcomes
At the end of this course, the student should be able to;
1. Understand what a fluid is and distinguish between liquids and gases.
2. Understand how a liquid behaves at rest and in motion and apply the knowledge in
manometry and calculation of forces in submerged surfaces.
3. Identify and use flow measurement devices to measure common fluid parameters like
pressure, velocity and discharge, in closed conduits.

Course content
Introduction to fluid mechanics; fluid properties, dimensions and units.
Pressure gauges and manometers.
Fluid statics: hydrostatic forces and centre of pressure on plane and curved surfaces.
Buoyancy: Stability of submerged and floating bodies.
Kinetics of flow: types of fluid flow, continuity equation, velocity and acceleration, vorticity
and introduction to vortex flow.
Dynamics of fluid flow: equation of motion. Bernoulli's equation.

Prerequisites: SPH 2170 Physics I, SPH 2107 Physics II

Prescribed text book


Douglas J. F. Gasiorek J. M. & Swaffield J.A. (2001) Fluid Mechanics, Prentice Hall, 2nd
Ed.

References
1. Munson B. R., Young D. F. & Okiishi T.H. (1998) Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics,
John Wiley and Sons, 3rd Ed.
2. Roberson J. A. & Crowe C. T. (1997) Engineering Fluid Mechanics, John Wiley and
Sons, 9th Ed.
3. Bansal R. K. (1992) A Textbook of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, Laxmi
Publications, 4th Ed.

Teaching organization:
2 hour lectures and 1 hour tutorial per week and at least three 3-hour-laboratory sessions per
semester.

Practicals
1. Manometry
2. Forces on submerged surfaces.
3. Flow measurements

Mode of assessment: 70% written exam, 30% Continuous assessment

Lecturer; P. M. Kibetu

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