ChE 316 Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics demonstrates the fluid mechanics principles applicable to chemical engineering practice with focus on the development of transport balances of mass, momentum and energy around control volumes for incompressible and compressible fluids.
The notebooks demonstrate these basic chemical engineering calculations using Python. The notebooks can be open directly in Google Colaboratory where they can be run, edited, shared, and saved to your Google Drive. Alternatively, the notebooks can be downloaded and executed on your computer. These notebooks were developed and tested using the Anaconda distribution.
https://docnathanm.github.io/chemeng316_fluids/
Note on the use of Python. The Python used in these notebooks is deliberately limited to a core set of language features. These notebooks use scalar variables and lists of scalar variables to represent data. Also used are arithmetic, math, print, and plotting functions from the matplotlib.pyplot library. Functions created with defand lambda are used when root-finding calculations are required. List comprehesions are used on occasion when the result is more readable code. The Sympy library for symbolic math is used extensively for solving things like mass balances. Other libraries included numpy, math, and scipy. There are many helpful tools included with the Python Data Science Handbook by Jake Vanderplas.
License Requirements. The materials in this repository are available at https://github.com/docNathanM/chemeng316_fluids for noncommercial use under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommericial ShareAlike License. You are invited to fork this repository, and to use, adapt, remix these material for non-commericial purposes. The license terms require you to give attribution and share your work under the same terms. Pull requests for corrections and additions to these materials are most welcome.
Acknowledgements. I wish to acknowledge and memorialize Dr. Jeff Kantor (jckantor) whose collection of Jupyter Notebooks for courses in chemical engineering have been an invaluable resource to me.