Paper format. National Exams, May 2016 —
07-Mec-B6 Advanced Fluid Mechanics. Three hours, OPEN BOOK, any
approved Sharp or Casio calculator permitted. Six questions are printed; any five
of them constitute a complete paper, each carries an equal 20 marks, and the item weights
are shown in the left margin. No aid sheet is bound into this paper — the open-book rule is the candidate’s table source, so every compressible-flow ratio below is quoted in closed form rather than read off a chart. All six questions are solved here.
Reference texts. Solutions follow the conventions of the texts the
EGBC syllabus recommends for this subject:
- F. M. White, Fluid Mechanics, 8th ed. — potential-flow building blocks
(§4.4, §8.2–8.3), laminar boundary layers and the momentum integral
(§7.2–7.4), dimensional analysis (§5.2–5.4), compressible duct
flow (§9.5–9.7).
- F. M. White, Viscous Fluid Flow, 3rd ed. — exact solutions of the
Navier–Stokes equations in cylindrical coordinates (§3.2–3.4) and
integral boundary-layer methods (§4.5).
- J. D. Anderson, Modern Compressible Flow, 3rd ed. — quasi-one-dimensional
nozzle flow, normal shocks and Fanno flow (Ch. 3, Ch. 5).
- P. K. Kundu, I. M. Cohen & D. R. Dowling, Fluid Mechanics, 6th ed. —
complex potential, images and the Blasius/Lagally force theorems (Ch. 6); boundary
layers (Ch. 9).
- B. R. Munson et al., Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, 8th ed. —
Buckingham Pi method and the repeating-variable procedure (Ch. 7).
