Engineering Fluid Mechanics
About this course
If you've ever taken a drink through a straw, gone for a swim, filled the gas tank in your car, put air in your bicycle tires, poured ketchup on a French fry, flown in an airplane, or just stood still and breathed, you have experienced fluid mechanics. These experiences give us important clues about how fluids flow. But we need to know more before we can solve real engineering problems and, ultimately, design systems that can efficiently and controllably deliver fluids throughout complex and far-reaching chemical processes. Together, we will discover how the fundamental physics, math, and conservation laws you already know can be applied to analyze fluid flow through networks of pipes and predict what machinery will be needed to operate the system. This knowledge will empower you to successfully solve many of the problems you are likely to encounter as a practicing engineer.
This online education course will teach you how to apply the basic laws governing the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy at both large (macroscopic) and small (microscopic) scales to quantitatively describe fluid flow. Whether you're learning for the first time or need a refresher, this course is for you!
