Fluid mechanics of carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composites Junjie Chen Department of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, 2000 Century Avenue, Jiaozuo, Henan, 454000, P.R. China Contributor: Junjie Chen, ORCID: 0000-0002-5022-6863, E-mail address: koncjj@gmail.com Fluid mechanics is the science concerned with the response of fluids to forces exerted upon them. It is a branch of classical physics with applications of great importance in hydraulic and aeronautical engineering and chemical engineering. Fluid mechanics is a subject with almost endless ramifications, and the account that follows is necessarily incomplete. Some knowledge of the basic properties of fluids will be needed. Fluids are not strictly continuous media in the way that all the successors of Euler and Bernoulli have assumed, for they are composed of discrete molecules. The molecules, however, are so small and, except in gases at very low pressures, the number of molecules per milliliter is so enormous that they need not be viewed as individual entities. There are a few liquids, known as liquid crystals, in which the molecules are packed together in such a way as to make the properties of the medium locally anisotropic, but the vast majority of fluids are isotropic. In fluid mechanics, the state of an isotropic fluid may be completely described by defining its mean mass per unit volume, or density, its temperature, and its velocity at every point in space, and just what the connection is between these macroscopic properties and the positions and velocities of individual molecules is of no direct relevance. A number of phenomena of considerable physical interest can be discussed using little more than the law of conservation of energy. However, the argument has so far been restricted to cases of steady flow. To discuss cases in which the flow is not steady, an equation of motion for fluids is needed, and one cannot write down a realistic equation of motion without facing up to the problems presented by viscosity, which have so far been deliberately set aside. Thermodynamics is the science of the relationship between heat, work, temperature, and energy. In broad terms, thermodynamics deals with the transfer of energy from one place to another and from one form to another. The key concept is that heat is a form of energy corresponding to a definite amount of mechanical work. Although thermodynamics dev...