Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

ENG BE 436

Conservation of mass, momentum, and energy in static and moving fluids. Constitutive relations for Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Viscous flows, with application to microfluidics, flow in porous materials, lubrication, and other areas of biomedical interest. Scaling analysis. Inertial effects, including boundary layers and unsteady flows. Introduction to computational fluid dynamics. 4 cr