Introduction to Fluid Mechanics: Part 1
MEC516/BME516 Fluid Mechanics, Chapter 1, Part 1: This video covers some basic concepts in fluid mechanics: The technical definition of a fluid, surface tension, the physical basis of temperature and pressure, the continuum approximation and the principle of dimensional homogeneity.
Course Textbook: F.M. White and H. Xue, Fluid Mechanics, 9th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2021.
All the videos for this introductory Fluid Mechanics course are available at: https://www.drdavidnaylor.net/
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Overview of the Presentation
01:23 Technical Definition of a Fluid
03:16 Two types of fluids: Gases and Liquids
04:50 Surface Tension
06:04 Density of Liquids and Gasses
07:09 Can a fluid resist normal stresses?
08:22 What is temperature?
09:55 Brownian motion video
11:18 What is fundamental cause of pressure?
13:49 The Continuum Approximation
16:08 Dimensions and Units
18:59 Secondary Dimensions
22:26 Dimensional Homogeneity
25:11 End Slide (Slug!)
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