Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MEE 404 — Applied Fluid Mechanics

2 units · MEE department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• identify the various types of fluids and flows
• carry out simple calculations on floating and submerged surfaces
• explain the concept of fluid machinery for prototype development
• explain concepts of boundary layer
• explain and derive the Navier–Stokes equation for conservation of momentum and conservation of mass for Newtonian fluids
• describe machines that transfer energy between a rotors and a fluids
• identify pump types performed by simple pump selection, including both turbines and compressors;
• perform simple CDD grid processing, calculations and result processing.

Course contents

Unsteady flow; oscillation in U-tube; surge tank; water hammer. Open-channel flows. Introductory concepts of boundary layer and re-circulating flows, mathematical derivation of Navier-stokes equations and its application. Dimensional analysis and similitude. Introduction to turbo machinery; characteristic curve for axial-flow and centrifugal pumps, fans, blowers, impulse and reaction turbines. Pump selection and application. Pipeline systems (Series and Parallel). Open channel flow. Overview of computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MEE 404.

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