MAAE 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Artificial Heart

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Course: MAAE 2300
• Professor: Thor Jodoin

Document Summary

Fluid mechanics plays a vital role in our everyday lives and in providing the fundamental needs of a human being; such as warmth, food, mobility, etc. Energy sector - hydropower, (turbines, pumps, & spillways); - engines, steam, gas turbines (working fluids); - oil & gas extraction, pipelines; - boilers, heat exchangers, building hvac; - wind turbines Transportation - aircraft (lift, drag, propulsion); - marine vessels (drag, propellers, cavitation, waves, wakes); - cars / automobiles (drag, fuel injection, brake hydraulics). Environmental - weather, oceanography, waterway behaviour (lakes, rivers), air & water pollution. Biological - blood flow, circulation, breathing, - artificial heart & organs. It is the molecular structure which distinguished solids, liquids, and gases. Solids: - molecules are arranged into a specific lattice formation; - this restricts the movement of molecules; - molecular spacing is definite (a constant).