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ME 6601: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
Offered Every Fall
| Credit Hours: |
3-0-3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Graduate standing in engineering or related discipline |
| Catalog Description: |
The fundamentals of fluid mechanics. Derivation of the governing equations of motion. An introduction to viscous, inviscid, turbulent, and boundary-layer flows. |
| Textbooks: |
Ronald Panton, Incompressible Flow, Panton; 2nd Edition, John Wiley; 1995.
G. M. Homsy, et al, Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics (w/CD), Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
| Instructors: |
Marc K. Smith, Paul Neitzel |
| Goals: |
This course is intended to provide the beginning graduate student with a broad background in the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and an introduction to the various flow regimes. After this course, the student should be prepared to take subsequent courses in a broad range of engineering disciplines, such as mechanical, bio-engineering, aerospace, and civil engineering. |
| Topics: |
- Derivation of the governing equations
- Navier-Stokes, continuity, and energy.
- Viscous Flows
- Exact solutions to various flow problems, including: channel flows, flow over a cylinder and a sphere, rotating flows, impulsively-started flow over a flat plate, etc.
- Inviscid Flows
- Bernoulli's equation, potential flow theory, and water waves.
- Laminar Boundary Layers
- The boundary-layer equations, exact and approximate solutions, friction drag, separation, and transition.
- Turbulent Flows
- The fundamentals of turbulent flow, turbulent boundary layers, jets, and shear layers.
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