LECTURES Introduction and basic definitions. Properties of fluids. Models of fluids. Fluids in equilibrium. Determination of hydrostatic forces. Archimedes" law. Methods of fluid flow description. General motion of fluid. Deformation of fluid element. Vortex motion of fluid. Principles of conservation of mass, momentum and energy. Balance of entropy. Navier-Stokes equation. Bernoulli equation. Similarity of flow phenomena. Potential flows. Principles of gas dynamics - subsonic and supersonic flows.

PRACTICAL EXERCISES Kinematics of flows. Laminar and turbulent flows in pipes - averaging of flow parameters.Practical applications of Bernoulli equation. Determination of forces acting on channel walls and on surfaces of bodies moving in fluids.

LABORATORY EXERCISES Visualization of flows. Outflow from orifices. Measurements of flow intensity in open channels and pipes. Characteristics of water turbine. Research of flow around lifting foils. Modelling of gas flow by hydrodynamic analogy.