Course Information

Hydrostatics: Archimedes' principle, fundamental equation of hydrostatics. Hydrodynamics of ideal fluids: Bernouli's principle, continuity of flows, Euler's principle. Hydrodynamics of real fluids, hidraulics: Newton's law of viscous fluids, Hagen-Poiseuille equation, Navier-Stokes equation, Chezy-formula. Thermodynamics: principles of thermodynamics, laws of gases, enthalpy, enthropy, td. cycles (Otto, Diesel, Carnot, etc…). Applying diagrams (p-V, T-s, h-x, logp-h, etc…), Heat transfer: thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, Fourier's principle, Boltzmann's law.