Lectures will form the main teaching activity with supporting problem-based tutorials. Design case studies will be used where applicable.

Integral with the classroom based activities are laboratory exercises designed to assist in the learning process, that is to develop knowledge and understanding by consolidating the principles delivered in class and to develop practical and written communications skills appropriate to students chosen vocation. The total learning time is 150 hrs comprising 36 hrs contact time (24 hours lecture, 12 hours laboratory) and 114 hrs independent study.

Topics covered include:
Fluid definitions, Pascals law, fluid static law, pressure movement, fluid forces, Bernolli equation, continuity equation, fluid fraction, the Moody Diagram, fluid momentum.

One 2 hour examination (50%) which will assess Learning Outcomes 1 - 4.
One in-course assessment on laboratory exercises (50%) which will assess Learning Outcomes 1-4.

Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences, YA Cengel & RH Turner, McGraw-Hill, 2001, ISBN 0-07-2390549
Introduction to Thermal Sciences, FW Schmidt, RE Henderson, CH Wolgemuth, John Wiley & Son, 1993, ISBN 0-471-549398
Thermofluids, K Sherwin and M Horsley, Chapman & Hall, 1996, 0-41259800-0
Fluid Mechanics, FM White, McGraw-Hill, 1994, ISBN 0-07-113765-3

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Thermofluid laboratory equipment