Short Description

• Advanced topics in applied fluid mechanics.
• Review of continuity, momentum, and energy equations for viscous, incompressible fluid; voricity and circulation concepts and theorems.
• Selected topics from the following areas: Complex potential, conformal mapping and applications.
• Airfoil and wing theory.
• Boundary layer theory; similarity solutions for laminar flows, integral techniques for turbulent flows.
• Compression and expansion waves in compressible flows; oblique shock waves, Prandtl-Meyer flow.
• Propagating waves and applications; shock tube, transients in duct systems.

Classes

3 lecture hours
3 semester hours