ENVE2602 Environmental Fluid Mechanics [UG]

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Credit: 6 points Availability: Semester 2 (See Timetable) Old unit code: 640.202, AMEC2601

Outcomes: Students develop skills in problem identification, problem quantification through scaling and analysis, and problem solution in the areas fluid statics and in a variety of fluid dynamics flows.

Content: This unit covers dimensional analysis; experimental design; fluid properties; hydrostatics; bulk equations of motion; differential forms of equations of motion; Bernoulli equation; plane flows; introduction to turbulence; external flow around a sphere; porous media flow; drag and lift; introduction to pipe flow; and introduction to water waves.

Assessment: This comprises tutorial assignments (30 per cent), three laboratory experiments (15 per cent) and a final examination (55 per cent).

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete the course.

Unit Co-ordinator(s): Dr Geoff Wake

Location: UWA (Crawley)

Mode: on-campus

Unit Rules:

Prerequisites: MATH1010 Calculus and Linear Algebra and MATH1020 Calculus, Statistics and Probability

Contact hours—lectures: 39 hrs; tutorials: 13 hrs; labs: 12 hrs

Unit Web Page: http://www.sese.uwa.edu.au/undergraduates/unit_outlines

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Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studysmarter.uwa.edu.au/). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.

Texts
Fox, R. W. and McDonald, A. T. Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, latest ed.: John Wiley & Sons

Lecture notes are also provided.

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