Chapter One Part 1
Chapter One Part 1
Chapter One Part 1
Introduction to Fluid
Mechanics
Prepared by
Dr. Mohammed Abd El Aziz Hassan
Course Objectives
This course on fluid mechanics has been created specifically for undergraduate
engineering students..
• To give the students a lot of different real-life engineering cases that will help
them understand how to use fluid mechanics principles correctly in engineering
situations.
• Allows for creative thinking and the development of a deeper understanding and
acceptable feel for fluid physics.
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Course Content (Theoretical)
FLUID PROPERTIES
• Density of fluids
• Viscosity
PRESSURE AND FLUID STATICS
• Pressure measurement methods and devices
• Absolute pressure
• Pressure gauge
• Torricelli Law
• Hydrostatic pressure
• Archimedes law
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Course Content (Theoretical)
FLUID DYNAMICS
• Fluid flow
• Continuity equation
• Bernoulli equation
• Friction coefficient
• Moody Scheme
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Course Content (Laboratory)
Fluid properties
Fluid statics
Fluid dynamics
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Introduction to
Fluid Mechanics
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Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
• Mechanics is the oldest physical science that deals with both stationary and
moving bodies under the influence of forces.
• Statics is the branch of mechanics that deals with bodies at rest , while the branch
that deals with bodies in motion under the action of forces is called dynamics.
• The subcategory fluid mechanics is defined as the science that deals with the
behavior of fluids at rest (fluid statics) or in motion (fluid dynamics), and the
interaction of fluids with solids or other fluids at the boundaries.
• Fluid mechanics itself is also divided into several categories. The study of the
motion of fluids that can be approximated as incompressible (such as liquids,
especially water, and gases at low speeds) is usually referred to as hydrodynamics.
• A subcategory of hydrodynamics is hydraulics, which deals with liquid flows in
pipes and open channels.
• Gas dynamics deals with the flow of fluids that undergo significant density
changes, such as the flow of gases through nozzles at high speeds.
• The category aerodynamics deals with the flow of gases (especially air) over
bodies such as aircraft, rockets, and automobiles at high or low speeds. 7
Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
Fluid
Mechanics
Gases
Hydraulic
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Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
What Is a Fluid?
• Distinction between a solid and a fluid is made based on the substance’s ability to
resist an applied shear (or tangential) stress that tends to change its shape.
• A solid can resist an applied shear stress by deforming, whereas a fluid deforms
continuously under the influence of a shear stress, no matter how small.
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• Consider a rectangular rubber block tightly placed between two plates. As the
upper plate is pulled with a force F while the lower plate is held fixed, the rubber
block deforms, as shown in Figure .
• The angle of deformation α (called the shear strain or angular displacement)
increases in proportion to the applied force F.
• Assuming there is no slip between the rubber and the plates, the upper surface of
the rubber is displaced by an amount equal to the displacement of the upper plate
while the lower surface remains stationary.
• The force that develops at the plate–rubber
interface due to friction is expressed as
𝑭 = 𝝉𝑨
where 𝝉 is the shear stress and A is the contact area between Figure 1–2 The shear stress
shown is that on the rubber
the upper plate and the rubber.
an equal but opposite shear
• When the force is removed, the rubber returns to its stress acts on the upper plate.
• If this experiment were repeated with a fluid (with two large parallel plates
placed in a large body of water, for example), the fluid layer in contact with the
upper plate would move with the plate continuously at the velocity of the plate
no matter how small the force F.
• The fluid velocity would decrease with depth because of friction between fluid
layers, reaching zero at the lower plate.
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Application Areas of Fluid Mechanics
It is important to develop a good understanding of the basic principles of fluid
mechanics, since fluid mechanics is widely used both in everyday activities and in
the design of modern engineering systems.
• The piping systems for water, natural gas, and sewage for an individual house and
the entire city are designed primarily based on fluid mechanics.
• The same is also true for the piping and ducting network of heating and air-
conditioning systems. Fluid mechanics plays a major role in the design of all these
components.
• There are several applications of fluid mechanics in an automobile. All
components associated with the transportation of the fuel from the fuel tank to the
cylinders—the fuel line, fuel pump, and fuel injectors. The purging of combustion
gases in exhaust pipes are analyzed using fluid mechanics.
• Fluid mechanics is also used in the design of the hydraulic brakes, the power
steering, the automatic transmission, the lubrication systems, the cooling system of
the engine block including the radiator and the water pump, and even the tires.
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o Some basic dimensions such as mass m, length L, time t, and temperature T are
selected as primary, while others such as velocity V, energy E, and volume V
are expressed in terms of the primary dimensions and are called secondary
dimensions, or derived dimensions.
o Several unit systems have been developed over the years. Two sets of units are
still in common use today: the English system, which is also known as the
United States Customary System (USCS), and the metric SI, which is also
known as the International System.
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Fluid Properties
• Fluid Properties
Any characteristic of a system is called a property. Some familiar properties are
pressure P, temperature T, volume V, and mass m. The list can be extended to include
less familiar ones such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, modulus of elasticity, thermal
expansion coefficient, electric resistivity, and even velocity and elevation.
Properties are either intensive or extensive. Intensive
properties are those that are independent of the mass of a
system, such as temperature, pressure, and density.
• Temperature Scale
The temperature scale used in SI units is
the Celsius scale. On the Celsius scale,
ice point and steam point are assigned
the numerical values of 0 and 100 °C
respectively.
The English system uses the Fahrenheit scale,
which assigns 32 and 212 °F as the ice point
and steam point, respectively.
• Specific Weight
The specific weight of a fluid, designated by the Greek symbol 𝜸 (gamma), is
defined as its weight per unit volume. Thus, specific weight is related to density
through the equation
The specific gravity of a fluid, designated as SG, is defined as the ratio of the
density of the fluid to the density of water at some specified temperature. Usually,
the specified temperature is taken as 4°C (39.2 °F), and at this temperature the
density of water is 1000 kg/m3. In equation form, specific gravity is expressed as
and since it is the ratio of densities, the value of SG does not depend on the system of
units used.
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Determine the density, specific gravity, and mass of the air in a room whose
dimensions are 4 m × 5 m × 6 m at 100 kPa and 25°C (Figure 1-2 )
𝑃 100
𝝆 = 𝑅𝑇 = 0.287×(273+25) = 1.169 kg/m3 Figure 1-2
Simplifying this, we find that the density of the fluid is approximately 0.96 kg/L.
Therefore, the mass of the fluid is 23 kg, and its density is 0.96 kg/L.
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Fluid Properties
• Viscosity
The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to the rate of deformation.
Viscosity is due to the internal frictional force that develops between different layers
of fluids as they are forced to move relative to each other.
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To obtain a relation for viscosity, consider a fluid layer between two very large
parallel plates separated by a distance ℓ as shown Figure 1.4.
𝐹
𝝉=
𝐴
where A is the contact area between the plate and the fluid. Note that the fluid layer
deforms continuously under the influence of shear stress.
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• The fluid in contact with the lower plate assumes the velocity of that plate,
which is zero (because of the no-slip condition).
• In steady laminar flow, the fluid velocity between the plates varies linearly
between 0 and V, and thus the velocity profile and the velocity gradient are
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Thus, we conclude that the rate of deformation of a fluid element is equivalent to the
velocity gradient du/dy. Further, it can be verified experimentally that for most fluids
the rate of deformation (and thus the velocity gradient) is directly proportional to the
shear stress
• Fluids for which the rate of deformation is linearly proportional to the shear stress
are called Newtonian fluids after Sir Isaac Newton, who expressed it first in 1687.
• Most common fluids such as water, air, gasoline, and oils are Newtonian fluids.
Blood and liquid plastics are examples of non-Newtonian fluids.
In one-dimensional shear flow of Newtonian fluids, shear stress can be expressed by
the linear relationship
A plot of shear stress versus the rate of deformation (velocity gradient) for a
Newtonian fluid is a straight line whose slope is the viscosity of the fluid, as
shown in Figure 1.6.
Note that viscosity is independent of the rate of deformation for Newtonian fluids.
Since the rate of deformation is proportional to the strain rate, Figure 1.6 reveals that
viscosity is a coefficient in a stress–strain relationship.
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The shear force acting on a Newtonian fluid layer (or, by Newton’s third law, the
force acting on the plate) is
where again A is the contact area between the plate and the fluid.
Then the force F required to move the upper plate in Figure 1.5 at a constant speed
of V while the lower plate remains stationary is
This relation can alternately be used to calculate 𝜇 when the force F is measured.
• kinematic viscosity 𝝊
In fluid mechanics and heat transfer, the ratio of dynamic viscosity to density
appears frequently. This ratio is given the name kinematic viscosity 𝝊 and is
expressed as 𝝊 = 𝝁Τ𝝆 .Two common units of kinematic viscosity are m2/s and stoke
(1 stoke = 1 cm2/s = 0.0001 m2/s).
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In general, the viscosity of a fluid depends on both temperature and pressure,
although the dependence on pressure is rather weak.
• For liquids, both the dynamic and kinematic viscosities are practically
independent of pressure, and any small variation with pressure is usually
disregarded, except at extremely high pressures.
• For gases, this is also the case for dynamic viscosity (at low to moderate
pressures), but not for kinematic viscosity since the density of a gas is
proportional to its pressure (Figure 1.8).
The viscosity of liquids decreases with temperature, whereas the viscosity of gases
increases with temperature (Figure 1.).
𝑎𝑇 1Τ2
Gases 𝜇=
1+𝑏Τ𝑇
Liquids 𝜇 = 𝑎10𝑏/(𝑇−𝑐)
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The viscosities of some fluids at room temperature are listed in Table 1.1
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Consider a fluid layer of thickness ℓ within a small gap between two concentric
cylinders, such as the thin layer of oil in a journal bearing. The gap between the
cylinders can be modeled as two parallel flat plates separated by the fluid.
Noting that torque is T = FR (force times the moment arm, which is the radius R
of the inner cylinder in this case), the tangential velocity is V = 𝜔R (angular
velocity times the radius), and taking the wetted surface area of the inner cylinder
to be A = 2πRL by disregarding the shear stress acting on the two ends of the inner
cylinder, torque can be expressed as
2𝜋𝑅3 𝜔𝐿 4𝜋 2 𝑅3 𝑛𝐿
ሶ
T = FR = 𝜇 =𝜇
ℓ ℓ
where L is the length of the cylinder and 𝑛ሶ is the number of revolutions per unit time, which is
usually expressed in rpm (revolutions per minute). Note that the angular distance traveled during
one rotation is 2π rad, and thus the relation between the angular velocity in rad/min and the rpm
is 2𝜋𝑛ሶ
Above equation can be used to calculate the viscosity of a fluid by measuring
torque at a specified angular velocity. Therefore, two concentric cylinders can be
used as a viscometer, a device that measures viscosity.
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• Example 2.2 ( Determining the Viscosity of a Fluid)
The viscosity of a fluid is to be measured by a viscometer constructed of two 40-
cm-long concentric cylinders (Figure 1. ). The outer diameter of the inner cylinder is
12 cm, and the gap between the two cylinders is 0.15 cm. The inner cylinder is
rotated at 300 rpm, and the torque is measured to be 1.8 N.m. Determine the
viscosity of the fluid.
SOLUTION
Assume
1. The inner cylinder is completely submerged in
the fluid.
2. The viscous effects on the two ends of the inner
cylinder are negligible.
The profile can be approximated as being linear in this
case since ℓ/R = 0.025 << 1. Solving Equation for
viscosity and substituting the given values, the viscosity
of the fluid is determined to be
4𝜋 2 𝑅3 𝑛𝐿
ሶ
T=𝜇
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4𝜋 2 𝑅3 𝑛𝐿
ሶ
T=𝜇
ℓ
0.15 ∗ 10−2 ∗ 1.8
𝜇= 3 = 0.1583 N·s/m2
12 300 1
4𝜋 2 ∗ 2 ∗ 10−2 ∗ 60 ( s ) ∗ 40 ∗ 10−2
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• Newtonian fluids
For non-Newtonian fluids, the relationship between shear stress and rate of
deformation is not linear, as shown in Figure 1.7. The slope of the curve on the
versus 𝑑𝑢/𝑑𝑦 chart is referred to as the apparent viscosity of the fluid.
▪ Fluids for which the apparent viscosity increases with the rate of deformation are
referred to as dilatant or shear thickening fluids.
▪ Fluids that exhibit the opposite behavior (the fluid becoming less viscous as it is
sheared harder, such as some paints) are referred to as pseudoplastic or shear-
thinning fluids.
𝑭𝒕 = 𝝉𝟏 𝑨 + 𝝉𝟏 𝑨
𝑽 𝑽
𝝉𝟏 = 𝝁 𝝉𝟐 = 𝝁
𝒚𝟏 𝒚𝟐
𝑽 𝑽
𝑭𝒕 = 𝝁 +𝝁
𝒚𝟏 𝒚𝟐
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c. Against an inclined plate
𝑽
W sin 𝜃 = 𝝁 𝑨
𝒚
𝑽
𝑭=𝝁 𝑨
𝒚
𝑽
𝑨 = 𝟐𝝅𝒓𝟏 𝑳 𝑭=𝝁 𝟐𝝅𝒓𝟏 𝑳
𝑟2 − 𝑟1
𝒚 = 𝑟2 − 𝑟1
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𝑽
𝑾=𝝁 𝑨
𝒚 𝑽
𝑾=𝝁 𝟐𝝅𝒓𝟏 𝑳
𝒚 = 𝑟2 − 𝑟1 𝑟2 − 𝑟1
𝑨 = 𝟐𝝅𝒓𝟏 𝑳
𝑽
𝑾=𝝁 𝑨
𝒚
𝒚 = 𝒓𝟐 − 𝒓𝟏 𝑽
𝑾=𝝁 𝟐𝝅𝒓𝟐 𝑳
𝑟2 − 𝑟1
𝑨 = 𝟐𝝅𝒓𝟐 𝑳
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2𝜋 𝑛
𝑽 = 𝑤. 𝑟1 𝒘= 𝑨 = 2𝜋𝑟1 𝐿
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𝑤. 𝑟1 2𝜋 𝑛. 𝑟1
𝑭=𝝁 2𝜋𝑟1 𝐿 = 𝝁 2𝜋𝑟1 𝐿
𝑟2 − 𝑟1 60 (𝑟2 − 𝑟1 )
4𝜋 2 𝑛ሶ 𝑟12 𝑛
𝑭=𝜇 𝐿 𝒏ሶ =
(𝑟2 − 𝑟1 ) 60
4𝜋 2 𝑛ሶ 𝑟13
𝑻 = 𝑭. 𝒓𝟏 = 𝜇 𝐿
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b. What is the Force on Disc and also Torque required? Assume 𝝎 = 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕.
𝑑𝑣 𝑤. 𝑟
𝑭= 𝜏𝐴 𝝉=𝜇 𝒗=𝜔𝑟 𝝉=𝜇 𝒘
𝑑𝑦 ℎ
d𝑭 = 𝜏 𝑑𝐴 𝒅𝑨 = 2𝜋𝑟 𝑑𝑟
𝑹
𝑤. 𝑟
𝒅𝑭 = 𝜇 2𝜋𝑟 𝑑𝑟
ℎ 𝝁
𝑤 𝑅 2 𝒉
𝑭 = 2𝜋𝜇 න 𝑟 𝑑𝑟
ℎ 0
𝑅
𝑤 𝑟3 2 𝑤 3
𝑭 = 2𝜋𝜇 𝑭 = 𝜋𝜇 𝑅
ℎ 3 3 ℎ
0 𝒅𝒓
𝑤. 𝑟 1 𝑤 4
𝒅𝑻 = 𝑑𝐹. 𝑟 = 𝜇 2𝜋𝑟 2 𝑑𝑟 𝑻 = 𝜋𝜇 𝑅
ℎ 2 ℎ
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