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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Hydrodynamics and Hydrodynamic Machines

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 338-0535/01
Abbreviation HyDyS
Course title Hydrodynamics and Hydrodynamic Machines
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Hydromechanics and Hydraulic Equipment
Course coordinator Ing. Jana Jablonská, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The Programme of Lectures
1. Basic concepts of fluid mechanics, physical properties of liquids, pressure and pressure forces in the liquid at rest, Euler's equation of hydrostatics.
2. Pressure levels, Pascal law, pressure force acting on the flat and curved surfaces.
3. The forces acting on the object in liquid, Archimedes' law, Fluids in relative calm, linear and rotary motion.
4. Basic concepts hydrodynamics, equations of continuity for one-dimensional and spatial flow, Euler equations of hydrodynamics.
5. Bernoulli's equation for ideal fluid flow, measurement of pressure and velocity in the pipeline.
6. Flow of real fluids, the Navier-Stokes equations, Bernoulli's equation for real fluid gravitational field, the specific energy loss.
7. Laminar flow of Newtonian fluids in circular pipes running down a vertical wall, the flow of no Newtonian fluids, a power equation flow, Bingham equation.
8. Hydraulic friction and local resistances, hydraulic calculation pipeline, pipeline characteristics.
9. Hydraulic calculation of pipes, characteristics of pipes, pipelines branched and circular, uniforms flow in the channel.
10. Liquid outflow from a small orifice, the liquid discharge through large rectangular hole in side wall of the container, emptying of containers.
11. Bernouliho equation for the rotating channel, distribution pumps, centrifugal pump, pump characteristic curves, pump in the piping system, Euler's equation, Head and pressure transport.
12. Characteristics of pumps and pipes, power, pump efficiency, the calculation of the suction head, cavitation, serial and parallel connection of pumps, flow control by throttling and the change in speed, the influence of viscosity.
13. Bernoulli equation for unsteady flow of an incompressible fluid in pipeline, water hammer, the sentence of change of momentum.
14. The resistance of solids, sedimentation velocity of the particle, physical similarity, numerical modeling of flow.

Literature

Bruce R. Munson, Donald F. Young, Theodore H. Okiishi. Fundamentals of Fluid
Mechanics. March: Wiley Text Books, 2002. ISBN 047144250X 
FOX, R.W., MC DONALD, A.T.: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, J. Wiley & sons,
New York, 1994
ASWATHA NARAYANA, P.A., SEETHARAMU, K.N.: Engineering Fluid Mechanics. Alpha Asience International Ltd., Harrow, U.K., 2005

Advised literature

WHITE, F.M.: Fluid Mechanics, Mc Graw-Hill, New York, 1986