SEM218 - Fluid Mechanics

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Offering information:

Available at the Burwood (Melbourne) campus from 2025

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Subrat Das
Prerequisite:

SIT194 and one unit from SEP101 or SEB101

Corequisite:

SEE010 or SEJ010

Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 2 hour seminar per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week, 1 x 5 hour practical experience (laboratory) per trimester.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and collaborative learning including 2 x 1 hour seminars per week. Students are required to attend and participate in practical experience (laboratory) activities at the Waurn Ponds (Geelong) Campus for the scheduled sessions during the trimester intensive activities as detailed in the unit site.

Content

This unit provides an introduction to fluid mechanics, the study of the behaviour and motion of fluids, both liquid and gases. It covers concept of ideal and real fluids, basic equations of fluid statics, hydrostatic forces, buoyancy and surface tension and relative equilibrium. Application of fluid mechanics range from studying laminar and turbulent flows, drag and lift, pressure losses in various fluid handling systems. The unit deals with the physics of fluid flow (the underlying principles and theory) as well as the engineering aspects (application to everyday problems).

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Describe flow patterns of fluid using appropriate mathematical calculations.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Identify, define and use physical, static and dynamic fluid properties in different practical situations.

GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO3

Experimentally measure fluid flow rates, impact of jets and other basic fluid flow characteristics and make comparison to analytical data.

GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO7: Teamwork

ULO4

Apply fluid mechanics and hydraulic principles to real world engineering such as pipe flows and pumping in order to size pumps, pipes turbines and other hydraulic structures.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week

Assessment 1
Problem solving tasks

Two written reports and sketches 20% (2 x 10%) Weeks 4 and 9
Assessment 2 Laboratory work Group work, graphical presentation, numerical calculation 20% Week 10
Assessment 3
Quizzes
Weekly online multiple choice quizzes 10% (10 x 1%) Weeks 2 - 11
End-of-Unit Assessment  Timed online test 50% End-of-Unit Assessment Period

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must achieve an overall mark of at least 40% in the End-of-Unit Assessment.

Learning Resource

Prescribed text(s): Cengel & Cimbala, 2019, Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals & Applications, 4th Ed in SI Units (or 4th Ed, 2017), McGraw Hill.

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SEM218 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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