Credit Weight: 0.5 Description: The fluid medium, kinematics and dynamics of a flow field; Bernoulli’s equation, vorticity and circulation; potential flow; Navier-Stokes’ equations; exact and approximate solutions for one and two-dimensional laminar flows; steady and unsteady flows; exact and approximate solutions to one and two-dimensional boundary layers. Introduction to turbulent flow; Reynolds stresses and Prandtl’s mixing length theory. Offering: 3-1; 0-0
Credit Weight: 0.5 Description: The fluid medium, kinematics and dynamics of a flow field; Bernoulli’s equation, vorticity and circulation; potential flow; Navier-Stokes’ equations; exact and approximate solutions for one and two-dimensional laminar flows; steady and unsteady flows; exact and approximate solutions to one and two-dimensional boundary layers. Introduction to turbulent flow; Reynolds stresses and Prandtl’s mixing length theory. Offering: 3-1; 0-0