Fluid Mechanics – prof. Costantino Manes

• The slides of the curse will be made available on the Polito Teaching Portal

Argomenti del programma: Fluids and their characteristics. Definition of fluid; fluid as a continuous; typical variables of fluid mechanics; motion regimes; deformations, deformation celerity and stresses in a fluid; state equation. Fluid statics. Local and global force balances; Stevin law; pressure measurements; resultant on flat surfaces and curved surfaces; buoyancy; stability of floats. Kinematics. Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches.