This site is for the Fall 2006 version of EAS 361.
Lecture on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:15 PM, EB 102
The fluids laboratory meets in Engineering Building 2, Room 115. Lab meeting times depend on section. Lab will be meeting during the first week of class.
Gerald Recktenwald, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Engineering Building, Suite 400, 725-4290,
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B.R. Munson, D.F. Young, and T.H. Okiishi, Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, fifth edition, 2006, Wiley, New York
Lab Manual for EAS 361, Mechanical Engineering Department, Portland State University, Fall 2006. The Lab manual will be available during the first week of class. You will also be able to download a PDF version when the revisions for the coming year are complete.
To provide mechanical and civil engineering majors with basic knowledge of fluid mechanics. To expose the basic equations and methods used to analyze fluid statics and dynamics. To analyze fluid mechanics in technologically important, situations.
The course learning objectives are discussed on a separate page.
Lecture on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:15 PM, Engineering Building, Room 102
The fluids laboratory meets in Engineering Building, Room 115. Lab meeting times depend on section.
Three, twenty-minute, in-class quizzes will be given. The top two quiz scores will be counted toward your grade. The midterm exam will last one class period. The final exam will be comprehensive. Discuss any potential conflicts well before the exam dates. There will be no make-up quizzes or exams.
If you have a disability and are in need of academic accommodations, please notify me (G. Recktenwald) immediately to arrange needed supports. If you need information about disabilities, please contact the Disability Resource Center on campus at 503-725-4150.
Students are expected to turn in laboratory assignment and homework problems that are substantially the result of their own work. Study groups, discussion of assignments among students, collective brainstorming for solutions, and sharing of advice is encouraged. Copying of assignments, computer files, graphs, or other means of duplicating material that is turned in for grading is expressly forbidden. Cheating on exams will result in a zero grade for the exam.
15% Homework 15% Laboratory 20% Quizzes: best 2 out of 3 25% Midterm Exam 25% Final Exam
On-line animations of simple fluid flow are available on this page.
Wind tunnels are used for experiments in external flow, i.e. flows in which an object is emmersed in a larger body of moving fluid. For years the fluids engineering division of NASA Ames Laboratory was home to the largest wind tunnel in the world. Alas, the 80 x 120 has been decommisioned along with the 12 foot pressurized wind tunnel. This leaves the relative new 40 x 80 low speed tunnel, the 11 foot transonic tunnel, and the 9 x 7 foot supersonic wind tunnel as the large wind tunnel facilities at Ames. The European Transonic Wind Tunnel is another example of a large wind tunnel.
Oregonians (and visitors) interested in flight will want to visit the Evergreen Aviation Museum and the Tillamook Air Museum. Here are some photos I took on a trip to the Evergreen Air Museum. You will also want to visit the Museum of Flight on your next trip to Seattle.
If you are interested in marine travel be sure to visit the Columbia River Maritime Museum.
The Pitch Drop Experiment at the University of Queensland in Austrailia shows how something that appears to be solid can flow. Also see the article from the European Journal of Physics that describes models of viscosity for the pitch. Is pitch a Newtonian fluid?