HM1008 Mechanics II 7.5 credits

Hydrostatics. The kinematics of fluid flow. Streamlines and particle paths. Dimensional analysis. Inviscid incompressible flow. Bernoullis law. Control-volume formulations of the continuity and movements equations, the stream function for two-dimensional flow. Irrotational flow and the velocity potential. Viscous flow: Laminar and turbulent flow in channels and boundary layers.

Practices
Two mandatory practical exercises are carried out by students in groups of four.

Project
Students are required to carry out a project in which they study two-dimensional flow round a wing profile and determine the lift on the wing.

To introduce fundamental concepts and phenomena in Fluid Mechanics. The course provides a foundation for further studies in the third and fourth years of the degree programme.

Course participants are assumed to have successfully completed their first year of studies in Vehicle Engineering or equivalent courses.

To be announced at course start.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• TEN1 - Examination, 4.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• ÖVN1 - Exercises, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Written tests (TEN1; 4,5 cr.), credit rate A-F.
Laboratory works (LAB1; 3 cr.).

Sten Wiedling

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.