MAE 3230: Fluid Mechanics Syllabus

Cornell University, Summer 2015

V4: 2015.05.27
Instructor Info:
Timothy Lannin
TBL34@cornell.edu
127 Upson Hall
3rd alley of cubes

Course Website:
Course documents and grades will be available on Blackboard.

Meeting Times/Place:
Lecture: MoTuWeTh 10:00AM - 11:15AM, Phillips Hall 403
Recitation: TuTh 2:30PM - 4:30PM, Phillips Hall 403
Office Hours: MoTuWeTh 5pm-6:30pm, Upson 207. Additional hours by appt.
Course Duration: 5/21/2015 - 7/1/2015

Textbook:
Fluid Mechanics, White, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill

Required Hardware:
The learning benefits of a highly interactive class are well-demonstrated in the
pedagogical literature, so Ill be using i>clickers very frequently in class. Youll be
expected to have an i>clicker to participate in this class.

Course Description:
MAE 3230 is an introductory fluid mechanics course on the physics of fluids and how
models of the fluids relate to behavior of fluid systems and engineering design of
fluid systems.

Learning Outcomes (what youre going to be able to do after this course):

Provide a qualitative description of fluid properties (e.g. viscosity, density)

and flow properties (e.g. pressure, velocity, flux, velocity gradient) and relate
those quantities to the units that describe them (e.g. mass, length, force,
time).
Do a mass balance on a control volume to develop an integral or differential
equation that will govern conservation of mass in a simple system.
Do a momentum balance on a control volume to develop an integral or
differential equation that will govern forces or stresses on a simple system.
Formulate an ordered approach to problem solving, using words of
explanation in derivations, and algebra before substituting numerical values
that allows neat analytical solutions and dimensional analysis.
Formulate an order of magnitude analysis on a governing differential
equation for mass conservation and momentum balance to determine how
variables scale with parameters.
Use such scaling and other assumptions to justify approximations and
empirical approaches; for example, pipe flows and boundary layer flows.
Apply fluid mechanics principles to design/optimize a physical fluid
mechanical system.
Communicate ones problem solving approach in both oral and written form,
with use of text, diagrams, equations, and plots.

Prerequisites:

MATH 1920 Multivariate Calc. (prereq.)

MATH 2930 Differential Equations for Engineers (prereq.)
TAM 2030 Dynamics (prereq.)
ENGRD 2020 Statics and Mechanics of Solids (prereq.)
ENGRD 2210 Thermodynamics (coreq.)

Time Commitment Expectations:

We are expected to complete 15 weeks worth of material in 6 weeks, so well be
moving at 2.5x pace. Cornell students nominally spend 10 hrs/week on a course, so
Ill expect 25 hrs/week from you. Expect seemingly frequent, lengthy assignments
with fast turnaround times (e.g. daily homework). Accordingly, Ill make myself
much more available (e.g. roughly daily office hours, faster returning of
assignments) than youve seen from your professors during the semester.

Lecture Format:
Sometimes things dont click until the second time youve been exposed to them.
To get the best bang for your buck in lecture, I strongly recommend reading the
corresponding text sections or watching the suggested video before the
corresponding lecture.
Lecture time will be highly interactive, so expect frequent clicker questions. Ill ask
each question twice: once for you to attempt to answer by yourself, and again,
before I reveal the answer, after consulting your neighbor. Expect some degree of
confusion and struggle, because learning only happens through that confusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcX3IW00nuk

Homework Format:
Youre welcome to use external sources and encouraged to collaborate with
classmates, as long as you cite external sources with enough info for me to rapidly
find it and write your collaborators names as citations as well. Just be aware that
copying /regurgitating is a pretty ineffective learning strategy, so youre only
hurting yourself of you dont try to honestly engage the material. Copying from
peers or from an external source and not citing it would be a violation of academic
honesty.
No credit will be given for late homework, but I will review late HW so you can see
where youve gone wrong.

Monitoring Time Commitment and Understanding:

I want to make sure that the scope of my assignments is reasonable. I also want you
guys to make yourselves aware how much assistance you needed to solve the
homework. On the top of each assignment I ask that you:

Put number of hours spent on it

Put scale 1-5 how much assistance needed to complete assignment:
1. I didnt need to even consult the text; I could derive everything from
first principles.
2. I understood quickly what I needed to do to solve the problem. I didnt
have the formulas off the top of my head, but I knew how to quickly
find them in the book.
3. I looked at a similar problem in the book or online, and then I knew
what to do to solve mine.

4. Didnt have a sense of how to solve the problem, so I went to office

hours or asked a classmate for help. Afterwards, however, I could
explain it pretty well to someone else.
5. I got a lot of help to complete this problem, but I still dont really get
it.
There is a HW grading rubric attached to the end of the syllabus. Use it as a how to
complete fluids problems successfully guide.

Lecture/Homework Schedule:
Lec
.#

Date

Topic

2015.05.
21

Course outline
and policies
Properties of
fluids and
flows, units
and
dimensions,
the Reynolds
number

2015.05.
25

2015.05.
26

2015.05.
27

Hydrostatics:
pressure as a
function of
depth in
quiescent
fluids,
manometers
Hydrostatics:
forces and
torques on
solid bodies
resulting from
pressure,
Hydrostatics
in rigid body
motion
Basic Flow
Analysis
Techniques;
Reynolds
transport
theorem;
Conservation
of mass using

Sugg.
Sugg. Videos to watch
Reading
before this lecture
before
this date
Section 1
1.4, 1.6,
Definition of fluid (4:581.8 (up to
10:00), Dimensions and
and
dimensional homogeneity
including
(12:26-19:57), Properties of
Specific
fluid (22:36-end)
Gravity),
https://youtu.be/OGIkuJoQz
1.9 (up to
ok?t=298
and
Viscosity (5:31-19:15)
including
https://youtu.be/fPPE3KB7G
flow
-s?t=331
between
Dimensional Homogeneity:
plates)
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=9IiigcVXrjQ
2.1, 2.2,
Intro to Hydrostatics:
2.3, 2.4
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=iY64C0uU4Qw

Probs
. due
next
lec.

2.5, 2.6,
2.7, 2.9

Submerged Gate: Moment

at Hinge:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=WkM1tCZDM2c
Rigid body motion:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=oh_xfMzFFkE

1.7, 1.10,
1.11, 3.1,
3.2, 3.3

Velocity Fields and

Streamlines:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=3fYIw0qoiXY
Reynolds transport
theorem:
https://youtu.be/3HMq1O0x
I_4

P2.79
P.280
P2.91
P2.11
2
P2.13
9
P2.15
5
P1.81
P1.82
P3.8
P3.16
P3.17
P3.31
P3.36

P1.4
P1.10
P1.12
P1.16
P1.23
P1.41
P1.54
P1.56

P2.14
P2.20
P2.48
P2.36
P2.35

(macro)
control volume
analysis
5

2015.05.
28

Conservation
of linear
momentum
using (marco)
control volume
analysis

3.4

2015.06.
01

Bernoulli eq.:
Frictionless
flow,

3.5

2015.06.
02

conservation
of energy
using (macro)
control volume
analysis

3.7

2015.06.
03

Conservation
of mass using
differential
C.V.
(Continuity

Fluid Flow through a

Control Volume:
https://youtu.be/FfRL_pvXX
HA
Control volumes: (1:29end)
https://youtu.be/m__DjOEm
BUw?t=89
(Note: he derives linear
momentum law differently,
so focus on application
rather than derivation)
Control volume example
problems (momentum) (018:09)
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=Hecj_BDIgug
Pressure change in Venturi
(5:25-9:07)
https://youtu.be/LBdtIvqWk
Lw?t=324
Bernoulli + Conservation of
Momentum: (18:18-end)
https://youtu.be/Hecj_BDIg
ug?t=1098

[no good videos on the

tube]

Section 2
4.1, 4.2
Derivation of the Continuity
Equation
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=Ls5HS2MLXpg
Conservation of Mass, parts

P3.40
P3.41
P3.44
P3.78
P3.96

P3.11
2
P3.11
5
P3.12
8
P3.12
3
P3.14
0
P3.17
3
P3.17
4
P3.17
7
P3.17
8
P3.18
3
P4.14
P4.15
P4.17
P4.25
P4.21

eqn.)

2015.06.
04

Streamfunctio
ns

4.7

10

2015.06.
08

Conservation
of lin.
momentum
using
differential C.V
Boundary
conditions,
Euler eq. (NSE
w/o viscosity)

4.3 (up to
and
including
Inviscid
flow: Euler
eqns.), 4.6

11

2015.06.
09

Navier-Stokes
eqn.

4.3
(remaining
sections)

12

2015.06.
10

Vorticity,
irrotational
flow, velocity
potential

4.8, 4.9

13

2015.06.

Simple viscous

4.10

2 and 3 Chemical
Engineering Fluid
Mechanics
https://youtu.be/WHC80Jxx
UWs
https://youtu.be/csX__eLIwg
(I had issues loading until I
clicked past 0:00 on time
bar.)
Continuity and Stream
Functions
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=RV0BV5EGtXw

Conservation of
Momentum, 1-3
https://youtu.be/dpFOdRvm
rCk
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=IXkmXBYpB8U
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=uCPivZ5V130
and part 4 up to 4:15:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=tIuCbp2DydA
(I had issues loading until I
clicked past 0:00 on time
bar.)
Conservation of
momentum, 4:15-end)
https://youtu.be/tIuCbp2Dy
dA?t=255
Velocity Potentials and
Stream Functions
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=rlAOwmHh3CM
Vorticity
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=VsT8OSxu4I8
(0:00-11:12)
Couette flow:

P4.20

P4.6
P4.47
P4.49
P4.51
P4.53
P4.55
P4.27
P4.26
P4.43

P4.28
P4.29
P4.33
P4.36
P4.38
P4.56
P4.59
P4.60
P4.61
P4.62
P4.66
P4.67
P4.37

11

14

2015.06.
15

15

2015.06.
16

flows: solve
Navier Stokes,
crossing off
terms, Couette
flow
Simple viscous
flows: solve
Navier Stokes,
more simple
flow examples
Simple viscous
flows: solve
Navier Stokes,
intro to CFD

16

2015.06.
17

Dimensional
analysis,
nondim.groups
, Buckingham
Pi Theorem,
Scaling and
nondimension
alizing basic
equations

17

2015.06.
18

Pipe flow:
development,
laminar
solution,

18

2015.06.
22

Pipe flow:
turbulence,
empirical
correlations,
Moody chart,
head loss

4.10

4.10

https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=zvW3xE3Whrc
Couette flow:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=zJX1p9cam7U
Poiseuille Flow:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=zsp6ZNB62mc

P4.86
P4.95
P4.97

Finite Difference for Laplace

Equation:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=-DxQ5BbzkJk
(they do it for temp., but
wed use it for z velocity
here and streamfunction
later)

HW
on
blackboard

Section 3
5.1, 5.2,
Dimensional analysis
5.3, 5.4
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=yPLviHzjBCM
Nondimensionalizing
navier-stokes (and arriving
at the stokes equations in
the low-Re limit)
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=mo32vxFgfXk
Nondimensionalizing NSE:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=1S3VOWNrEi4
6.1, 6.2,
Hagen-Poiseuille law for
6.3, 6.4
hydraulic circuits
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=b5Z_BWu-daA
6.5, 6.6,
6.7

Entrance Region vs. Fully

Developed Flow (note that
they use old Le correlation,
different from eq. 6.6 in
White):
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=4VoJnSM2fbg
Using a Moody Chart:

P4.84
P4.85
P4.88
P4.94

P5.17
P5.22
P5.38
P5.40
P5.45
P5.46

P6.12
P6.13
P6.21
P6.22
P6.27
P6.47
P6.54
P6.57
P6.72
P6.80

19

2015.06.
23

External flow:
derivation of
BL equations,
Re_x

Example
3.11, 7.1,
7.2, 7.3,
7.4

20

2015.06.
24

External flow:
flow
separation,
experimental
correlations

7.5, 7.6 (up

to and
including
3D bodies)

21

2015.06.
25

Potential Flow

8.1, 8.2,
8.3

22

2015.06.
29

Airfoils

7.6
(section:
forces on
lifting
bodies),
8.4, 8.7

23

2015.06.
30

Potential Flow,
2nd intro to
CFD

24

2015.07.
01

Compressible
flow

8.9 (up to
and
including
finite diff.
method)
9.1, 9.2,
9.3, 9.4,
9.5 (up to
and
including
Mach
number
relations),

https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=5glOutYffeM
Boundary Layers:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=GcX_CDrQCsI

Super old school, but super

good:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=wMxK2GtFFq0
(Particularly ~13:30
onward)
Solution of laplace
equations for potential flow:
introductory concepts
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=WlaoBb9zR74
Lecture 19 (2014). Stream
function and Couette Flow
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=Ol6E5DV6Fhw
(up to 12:00)
How to explain lift to nonengineers:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=aFO4PBolwFg
A more technical
discussion:
https://youtu.be/VsT8OSxu
4I8?t=808 (13:28-17:42)
[no good videos on the
tube]

Supersonic Channel Flow:

https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=KiQuFtTMOR4
Animation of Mach Waves:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=-Zu5SGllmwc

P7.9
P7.14
P7.23
P7.24
P7.45
P7.61
P7.84
P7.71
P7.96
P7.98
P8.2
P8.8
P8.12
P8.21
P8.33

P7.11
5
P7.11
8
P8.46
P8.52
P8.84
None

None

9.9
(section:
Mach
waves)
Recitation/Problem Solving Session Format and Rationale:
In place of the standard me talking at you recitations, well be doing guided
problem solving sessions. The class will break into pairs. Most of the discussion is
expected to be with your partner, but cross-pollination among groups is welcome.
One pair will do their work at the blackboard, while others will work at desks. Near
the end of the session, one member of the blackboard group will present a quick
summary of the problem solution to the rest of the group. Every person in the class
will be the presenter one time.

Exam/Recitation/Problem Solving/Design Project Session Schedule:

Date
2015.05.
21
2015.05.
26
2015.05.
28
2015.06.
02
2015.06.
04
2015.06.
09
2015.06.
11
2015.06.
16
2015.06.
18
2015.06.
23
2015.06.
25
2015.06.
30

Topic
P1.57, P1.51
P2.27, P2.154
P3.102, P3.82
P3.116, P3.81
Prelim 1, Lectures 1-7
Design project demos: Balloon cars
P4.60, P4.76
P4.83, P4.91
Prelim 2, Cumulative, emphasis on lectures 8-15
P6.26, P7.80, P7.13
Practice Final Exam
Final Exam, Cumulative, emphasis on lectures 1622

Exam format and rationale:

There will be two prelim exams and one final. You will have access to your textbook,
notes, and homework problems during the exams, but not access to other humans
or the internet for the sit down portion. No need to cite sources during the sit down
exam.
I will grade the prelims and return them to you with points earned for each problem,
but I will not initially give explanation for what your errors are. Instead, you will
have a chance to earn points by finding your own errors, revising your answers, and
submitting the exam for a second grade. For this revision process, you will have
access to all resources (including classmates and the internet) but the work you
submit must be your own. Cite sources for your revisions. The final does not have a
revision because the timeframe for grade submission is too quick.

Grading:
Item

Percentage of
Course Grade [%]
17
20
5
6
27
8

Prelim 1
Prelim 2
Prelim 1 Corrections
Prelim 2 Corrections
Final
Homework
Problem-solving session
10
participation
Mini Design Project
7
Clicker Questions
Extra Credit
Nominal grade is out of 100%. Each assignment will be graded out of 100% (per
assignment) and weighted equally to other items in its category (if others exist).
Category sub grades will then be weighted and aggregated to a nominal course
grade. Extra credit points from clicker questions will be added to your nominal
course grade according to the following formula:

Course Grade=Nominal Course Grade+

(N answered , evenif incorrect + N answered correctly )

3
2N questions

I reserve the right to increase your grade from this numerical score based on
additional active participation, independent initiative in the course, and effort put
into learning. Your grade will not be lowered from the numerical score computed
above.

Special Accommodations:
Please let me know at the beginning of the course if you require special
accommodations. Ill be happy to adjust structure of exams, homework, lectures,
etc.

MAE 3230 Summer 2015, T. Lannin Homework Grading Rubric

Aspect of
Solution
Problem
Statement

Aspect
Importa
nce
Moderate

Totally Good

Mostly There

Pretty Far Of

Reformulation of question as a
clear engineering problem

A few minor items

missing from given
problem statement.
Coordinate system not
clearly defined, but
could be inferred from
context.
Undefined variable
present, but still could
be inferred from
context.
Slight imprecision in
language of
assumption.
Connections missing
between assumptions
and governing
equation.
Analysis may have one
step that doesnt
properly follow, but all
following steps would
be proper.
Explanatory text is
missing between
some steps
Analysis has a gap, even
if following content is
correct.
Plugged in numerical

Skips stating problem statement.

Diagram /
Schematic

Critical

Control volume outlined.

Coordinate system defined in
diagram.
Variables clearly defined in
diagram (with supporting
text).

Assumption
s,
Governing
Equation(s)

Critical

Assumptions clearly stated.

Clear connection made
between assumptions and
governing equation.

Analysis

Critical

All steps follow logically from

the previous step.
In between steps explaining
progression
No big gaps.
Kept solution in terms of
general variables until final
line

No diagram/schematic.
Control volume outline is missing
in diagram (when would have
been appropriate).
Coordinate system not clearly
defined, and cannot be inferred
from context.
Many variables not defined.
Key assumptions missing.
Incorrect governing equation.

Multiple minor errors cause

solution to get too far off track.
Major error totally changes
nature of solution.
No explanatory text between
steps
Huge gaps between steps
Plugged in numerical quantities
prematurely, obscuring
analysis.

Answer

Critical

Reported
Time Cost

Moderate

Reported
level of
independen
ce*

Moderate

Sources
Cited

Moderate

Final answer has proper

dimensionality/units.
Final answer is numerically
correct.
Final answer clearly
labeled/boxed.

Amount of time spent on

assignment stated at top of
HW, next to name
Independence listed 1-5** next
to name

quantities
prematurely, but
analysis still clear.
Answer has correct
units, but has an
incorrect numerical
value (though
seemingly
reasonable)
Final answer is present
from context, but not
labeled/boxed.
<no middle ground>

<no middle ground>

Answer has correct units, but the

numerical value is so
unreasonable that it should
have raised a red flag.
Answer has incorrect or missing
units.
Answer is missing entirely.

This info was not given.

This info was not given.

Sources properly
Most stuff cited, but
Many minor sources missing, or
acknowledged:
missing a few minor
one major source missing (e.g.
1) group work with
sources (e.g. equation
acknowledging a solution or a
classmates (list names)
numbers or sources of
classmate)
2) developing solution from matl properties)
similar problems online
or in textbook* (give
sufficient info for me to
easily find content)
3) looking up material
properties
4) attending office hours
5) using equations from
book (e.g. eqn. 5.4) or
elsewhere,
* To clarify, Id never deduct points for seeking this kind of assistance on HW. I just want you to tell me and think
about for yourselves what help you needed to complete the problem.

**1-5 independence scale description in syllabus

How criteria above relate to grade:
Grade
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
0%

Type of assignment that would get such a grade:

Totally good in all categories.
One mostly there in a moderate category.
Mostly there in a few less important categories or one mostly there in a critical category.
Mostly there in a many moderate categories or a few mostly theres in critical categories or a pretty
far off in a moderate category.
Many mostly theres in critical categories or a Pretty Far Off in a critical category.
Assignment not turned in.

Level of Feedback Expected:

I value quick turnaround over detailed written feedback for homework. Expect homework to be returned in the order
of a day or two, but with only a few indications of what you got wrong. If you get stuff wrong and want an
explanation how to correct it, I believe that its more efficient and more enlightening to do it face-to-face. Come to
office hours to address concerns.