Free Fluid Mechanics Videos and Other Resources

[Cimbala, John Michael]

As the new Semester begins, I remind you of the FREE resources from John Cimbala, co-author of the popular Cengel & Cimbala fluid mechanics textbook for students and instructors of fluid mechanics:

 

My entire course is online, including 86 FREE YouTube video lessons from my undergraduate fluid flow course. Videos are ~ 10 to 15 minutes in length and include annotated notes for each video, two-minute humorous videos for some topics, and an Equation Sheet with important equations from each lesson. These are useful as supplements to a traditional course or as the lessons for a flipped classroom or hybrid or online course, and all are FREE.

 

Here is the link to an Excel spreadsheet accessing all videos, annotated notes, and Equation Sheet, along with links to other course videos on graduate fluid mechanics, air pollution, and indoor air quality: 

https://www.me.psu.edu/cimbala/Cengel_Cimbala_book/Supplements/List_Fluid_Mechanics_Lesson_Videos_for_CC_Book.xlsx

 

Please share with anyone taking or teaching fluid mechanics.

 

Sincerely, and Happy New Year!

John M. Cimbala

 

--- Below is a copy of the Excel Spreadsheet if your browser allows ---

 

	Supplements to Cengel/Cimbala Fluid Mechanics Textbook
	Fluid Mechanics Lesson Series (FMLS)
	Two-Minute Fluid Mechanics (TMFM) Videos
	Created by John M. Cimbala, The Pennsylvania State University
				Latest revision, 08 January 2025
		Link to my latest Course Syllabus:	Syllabus for ME 320, Fall 2024
		Link to the Equation Sheet:	Equation Sheet
		Link to this Excel File:	Excel File	Copy and paste the URL below if necessary
	https://www.me.psu.edu/cimbala/Cengel_Cimbala_book/Supplements/List_Fluid_Mechanics_Lesson_Videos_for_CC_Book.xlsx
	Book Section(s)	FMLS Video YouTube Link	Annotated Notes	Short, Humorous TMFM Video (if available)
	MODULE 01: INTRODUCTION AND FLUID PROPERTIES
	1-1	Lesson 01A: Introduction	Notes 01A	A Bad Algebra Habit And How To Kick It
	1-3, 1-4	Lesson 01B: Classification of Fluid Flow	Notes 01B	Turbulence: The Final Frontier
				Fluids Mission Impossible: Demonstrating Mass Entrainment
	1-6, 1-10	Lesson 01C: Dimensions, Units, and Significant Digits	Notes 01C	Unit Conversions and Unity Conversion Ratios
				The Significance of Significant Digits
	2-2, 2-5	Lesson 01D: Density and Related Properties	Notes 01D
	2-3, 2-6	Lesson 01E: Vapor Pressure and Viscosity	Notes 01E	Cool Consequences of Cavitation
				Block Sliding Down an Incline on an Oil Film
				Fluid Viscosity and Its Bearing on Journal Bearings
	MODULE 02: PRESSURE AND FLUID STATICS - MANOMETERS, HYDRAULIC JACKS
	2-7	Lesson 02A: Surface Tension	Notes 02A	Surface Tension: It’s a Bit of a Stretch!
				Calculation of Capillary Rise in a Tube
				Why Do Coffee Rings Form?
				Magnetic Cheerios? Why Do Floating Cheerios Attract?
	3-1	Lesson 02B: Introduction to Pressure	Notes 02B	Principal Principles About Pressure
	3-1	Lesson 02C: Equation of Fluid Statics	Notes 02C
	3-1	Lesson 02D: Hydraulic Jack Analysis	Notes 02D	Basics of Hydraulics - How Hydraulics Makes Light Work of Heavy Lifting
	3-2	Lesson 02E: Barometers	Notes 02E
	3-2	Lesson 02F: Manometers	Notes 02F
	MODULE 03: PRESSURE AND FLUID STATICS (continued) - SUBMERGED OBJECTS
	3-4	Lesson 03A: Submerged Vertical Plate	Notes 03A
	3-4	Lesson 03B: Submerged Inclined Plate	Notes 03B
	3-5	Lesson 03C: Submerged Curved Plate	Notes 03C
	3-6	Lesson 03D: Buoyancy and Stability	Notes 03D	Which Soda Cans Float, Which Sink, and Why?
	3-7	Lesson 03E: Rigid-Body Acceleration	Notes 03E
	3-7	Lesson 03F: Rigid-Body Rotation	Notes 03F
	MODULE 04: FLUID KINEMATICS - FLUID MOTION, VORTICITY, STRAIN RATE TENSOR
	4-1	Lesson 04A: The Material Derivative	Notes 04A
	4-2	Lesson 04B: Fluid Flow Patterns	Notes 04B	Streamlines, Pathlines, and Streaklines
	4-4, 4-5	Lesson 04C: Translation, Rotation, and Vorticity	Notes 04C
	4-4	Lesson 04D: The Strain Rate Tensor	Notes 04D	The Stress Tensor for Newtonian Fluids
	4-6	Lesson 04E: Reynolds Transport Theorem	Notes 04E
	MODULE 05: CONSERVATION OF MASS AND ENERGY - CONTROL VOLUMES
	5-1, 5-2	Lesson 05A: Conservation of Mass	Notes 05A
	5-3, 5-5	Lesson 05B: Conservation of Energy	Notes 05B
	5-6	Lesson 05C: Kinetic Energy Correction Factor	Notes 05C
	5-6	Lesson 05D: Head Form of the Energy Equation	Notes 05D
	5-4	Lesson 05E: Grade Lines	Notes 05E
	MODULE 06: BERNOULLI EQUATION AND LINEAR MOMENTUM EQUATION
	5-4	Lesson 06A: Beloved Bernoulli Equation	Notes 06A	Can Pressure Increase in the Flow Direction?
	6-1 to 6-4	Lesson 06B: Linear Momentum, Fixed CV	Notes 06B
	6-4	Lesson 06C: Linear Momentum, Moving CV	Notes 06C
	6-4	Lesson 06D: Angular Momentum, Fixed CV	Notes 06D
	MODULE 07: DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND SIMILARITY - BUCKINGHAM PI
	7-1, 7-2	Lesson 07A: Dimensional Analysis Introduction	Notes 07A
	7-3	Lesson 07B: Similarity, Models and Prototypes	Notes 07B
	7-4	Lesson 07C: Method of Repeating Variables	Notes 07C
	7-4	Lesson 07D: More Dimensional Analysis Examples	Notes 07D	Dimensional Analysis and Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
	7-5	Lesson 07E: Incomplete Similarity	Notes 07E
	7-4	Lesson 07F: Segue: Dimensional Analysis to Pipe Flow	Notes 07F
	MODULE 08: INTERNAL FLOW - FLOW IN PIPES, MAJOR AND MINOR LOSSES
	8-1, 8-2	Lesson 08A: Pipe Flow Introduction	Notes 08A
	8-3	Lesson 08B: Pipe Flow Entrance Region	Notes 08B
	8-4	Lesson 08C: Fully Developed Pipe Flow	Notes 08C
	8-4	Lesson 08D: Major Head Losses, Laminar	Notes 08D
	8-5	Lesson 08E: Major Head Losses, Turbulent	Notes 08E
	8-6	Lesson 08F: Pipe Flow Minor Losses	Notes 08F	Explaining That Hole in Your Coffee Bag
	8-6	Lesson 08G: More Pipe Flow Examples	Notes 08G
	MODULE 09: INTERNAL FLOW - PUMP PERFORMANCE & MATCHING TO SYSTEM
	8-6	Lesson 09A: Diffusers, The Free Lunch	Notes 09A	Is a Diffuser the Veritable Free Lunch?
	8-7	Lesson 09B: Piping Networks	Notes 09B
	14-1, 14-2	Lesson 09C: Introduction to Pump Performance	Notes 09C
	8-7, 14-2	Lesson 09D: Matching Pump to System	Notes 09D
	14-3	Lesson 09E: Pump Scaling Laws	Notes 09E
	14-4, 14-5	Lesson 09F: Introduction to Turbine Performance	Notes 09F
	MODULE 10: DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS OF FLUID FLOW - MASS AND MOMENTUM
	9-1	Lesson 10A: Introduction to Differential Analysis	Notes 10A
	9-2	Lesson 10B: The Continuity Equation	Notes 10B
	9-3	Lesson 10C: Stream Function, Cartesian Coordinates	Notes 10C
	9-3	Lesson 10D: Stream Function, Cylindrical Coordinates	Notes 10D
	9-4, 9-5	Lesson 10E: The Navier-Stokes Equation	Notes 10E	The Stress Tensor for Newtonian Fluids
	9-6	Lesson 10F: Finding Pressure from the Navier-Stokes Eq.	Notes 10F
	MODULE 11: DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS (CONTINUED) - EXACT SOLUTIONS, CFD
	9-6	Lesson 11A: Exact Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equation	Notes 11A	Block Sliding Down an Incline on an Oil Film
	9-6	Lesson 11B: Boundary Conditions for the Navier-Stokes Eq.	Notes 11B
	9-6	Lesson 11C: Navier-Stokes Solutions, Cylindrical Coordinates	Notes 11C
	9-6	Lesson 11D: More Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equation	Notes 11D	Fluid Viscosity and Its Bearing on Journal Bearings
	15-1 to 15-5	Lesson 11E: Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics	Notes 11E
	MODULE 12: APPROXIMATE SOLUTIONS - CREEPING, INVISCID, IRROTATIONAL
	10-1 to 10-2	Lesson 12A: Nondimensionalization of the Eqs. of Fluid Flow	Notes 12A
	10-3	Lesson 12B: The Creeping Flow Approximation	Notes 12B
	-	Lesson 12C: Cunningham Correction Factor	Notes 12C
	10-4	Lesson 12D: Approximation for Inviscid Regions of Flow	Notes 12D
	10-5	Lesson 12E: The Irrotational Flow Approximation	Notes 12E	Why You Can't Suck Out a Candle
	10-5	Lesson 12F: Superposition in Potential Flow	Notes 12F
	10-5	Lesson 12G: Examples of Superposition in Potential Flow	Notes 12G
	MODULE 13: THE BOUNDARY LAYER APPROXIMATION
	10-6	Lesson 13A: Introduction to Boundary Layers	Notes 13A
	10-6	Lesson 13B: Laminar Flat Plate Boundary Layer	Notes 13B
	10-6	Lesson 13C: Boundary Layer Displacement Thickness	Notes 13C
	10-6	Lesson 13D: Turbulent Flat Plate Boundary Layer	Notes 13D	Turbulence: The Final Frontier
	10-6	Lesson 13E: Boundary Layers with Pressure Gradients	Notes 13E
	MODULE 14: EXTERNAL FLOW - DRAG AND LIFT ON BODIES
	11-1 to 11-2	Lesson 14A: Introduction to Drag and Automobile Drag	Notes 14A	Fluids Mission Impossible: Car Drag vs. Speed
	11-3 to 11-4	Lesson 14B: Aerodynamic Drag on Various Objects	Notes 14B
	11-6	Lesson 14C: Aerodynamic Drag on Cylinders and Spheres	Notes 14C
	-	Lesson 14D: Terminal Settling Speed of Spheres	Notes 14D
	11-7	Lesson 14E: Aerodynamic Lift and Induced Drag	Notes 14E
	MODULE 15: COMPRESSIBLE FLOW - ISENTROPIC NOZZLES AND DIFFUSERS, SHOCKS
	12-1 to 12-2	Lesson 15A: One-Dimensional Compressible Flow in Ducts	Notes 15A	Supersonic and Subsonic Nozzles and Diffusers
				Supersonic and Subsonic Nozzles: A More Elegant Approach
	12-2 to 12-3	Lesson 15B: Compressible Flow & Choking in Converging Ducts	Notes 15B
	12-3	Lesson 15C: Compressible Flow in Converging-Diverging Ducts	Notes 15C	False Position Method in Excel
	12-4	Lesson 15D: Normal Shocks	Notes 15D
	12-4	Lesson 15E: Oblique Shocks	Notes 15E
	12-4	Lesson 15F: Prandtl-Meyer Expansion Fans	Notes 15F
	12-5	Lesson 15G: Rayleigh Flow - Compressible Flow With Heat Transfer	Notes 15G	OPTIONAL LESSON FOR ME 320, PENN STATE
	12-6	Lesson 15H: Fanno Flow - Compressible Duct Flow With Friction	Notes 15H	OPTIONAL LESSON FOR ME 320, PENN STATE
		Last Day of Class - Vote for Favorite John Cimbala YouTube Character:
		1.    Video of all 13 characters: (2 minutes)	https://youtu.be/Uc1eEz_IXXY
		2.    Vote here:	https://tinyurl.com/265t88nr
		Bonus Humorous Videos for Finals Week:
		1.    A Professor Skeptic Christmas Carol (14 minutes)	https://youtu.be/hjp4ROP4A54
	BONUS: ADDITIONAL SHORT FLUID MECHANICS LECTURES FROM OTHER COURSES
	12-4	ME 420 Lecture 34: Introduction to Oblique Shocks	Notes 420_34
	12-4	ME 420 Lecture 35: The Theta-Beta-Mach Number Equation for Oblique Shocks	Notes 420_35
	12-4	ME 420 Lecture 36: Oblique Shocks - Discussion and Examples	Notes 420_36
	BONUS: SIMILAR EXCEL FILES FROM COURSES BY PROFESSOR CIMBALA
	ME 320	Fluid Flow (This File)	Excel File
	ME 405	Indoor Air Quality Engineering	Excel File
	ME 433	Fundamentals of Air Pollution	Excel File
	ME 521	Foundations of Fluid Mechanics I (Graduate Fluids)	Excel File

 

 

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John M. Cimbala
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State
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[Cimbala, John Michael]