HS1007 Fluid Mechanics 7.5 credits
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Application
For course offering
Spring 2025 Start 14 Jan 2025 programme students
Application code
60604
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
- Static pressure and forces
- Continuity considerations for circulating service pipes
- Forces caused by flow
- Continuity equation and energy equation with balance considerations
- Pipe flow, channel flow, and fluid machinery
- Pumps and fans with applications
- Flow measurement
- Elements from hydrology
- Considering sustainability aspects when dimensioning pipe, pump and fan networks
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student shall be able to:
- Describe principles of energy and power consumption dimensioning and flow measurement
- Calculate static pressure and forces on plane and curved surfaces
- Design pipe networks and open channels
- Estimate pump and fan requirements and apply design principles for these
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Completed courses:
HF1904/HF1700
AF1734/HS1722
Course registration at:
AF1737
AF1744
Recommended prerequisites
Equipment
Literature
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- PROA - Project, 2.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- TENA - Written exam, 5.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, 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.
The course is examined through a project (PROA) and a written exam (TENA).
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- 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.