Lesson Plan: Laminar and Turbulent Flow of Viscous Fluids Physics • Second Year of Secondary School
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to model the motion of viscous liquids that can have a uniform laminar flow or a nonuniform turbulent flow.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- model the laminar flow of a viscous fluid that flows along a rectangular-prism-shaped channel,
- use to calculate the dynamic viscosity of a fluid that flows along a rectangular-prism-shaped channel,
- describe how viscosity of a fluid affects the turbulence of the flow of the fluid,
- use to calculate the Reynolds number of a flow in a pipe.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the fact that ,
- fluid streamlines.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- Stokes’ law.
