Fluid and Transfer Dynamics

The aim of this course is to teach the basics of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, and to enable students to model and interpret the behavior of non-isothermal fluids. Fluid mechanics covers the basic cases (hydrostatic, perfect fluid), and heat transfer covers two of the three types of transfer (conduction, convection). Students will be able to make appropriate assumptions, choose the characteristics to be analyzed according to the study envisaged, and interpret the phenomena.

The mechanics of continuous media module in the first semester

Part I:

Hydrostatics
Case of the perfect fluid
Introduction to real fluids and application to pressure drops

Part II:

Introduction to heat transfer by conduction, convection
Conduction (conservation laws: heat quantity (Fourier's law), notion of thermal resistance)
Thermal convection (relationship between flow and heat transfer, adimensional numbers)

Physics

Desjardins D., Combarmous M., Bonneton N., Mécanique des fluides. Problèmes résolus avec rappels de cours Collection DUNOD, 2002.
Ryhming I.L., Dynamique des fluides. Presses Polytechniques Romandes, 1991.
Caltagirone J. P., Physique des écoulements continus Notes de cours accessible by leaving an e-mail calta@enscbp.fr 2007.
Candel S., Mécanique des fluides. Dunod Université Bordas, 1990.