The
Chemical
Engineering
Department
is
hosting
a
special
undergraduate
lecture
about
The
Bernoulli
equation.
Biographical Sketch
Born in France, I am the son of an English teacher and a dentist. I lived my formative years in the French Caribbean island of Martinique before immigrating to Canada where he studied Mechanical Engineering (B.Eng), Applied Physics (B.A.Sc), Electrical Engineering (M.A.Sc). I finished my formal education in Australia where I was awarded a PhD in Chemical Engineering. My original passion is in transportation and cars and I now pursue the engineering of Li-ion battery solutions for the next generation of electric vehicles.
Teaching Abstract
The Bernoulli equation was defined in 1738 by Daniel Bernoulli as part of his "Hydrodynamica" publication. This equation describes the relation between work done by pressure, potential and kinetic energy of a fluid travelling along a path. This equation based on the principle of conservation of energy finds many applications in fluid mechanics for example in Pitot tubes used on airplanes to determine altitude and airspeed. Here we are going to derive the general expression of the Bernoulli equation following the conservation laws and provide a few applications if time allows.