Course Objectives
Introduce students to the physics of mainly liquid or incompressible fluids. In particular, to familiarize the student with the study of the topics outlined below.
Meeting Times and Places:
- Monday, 16:30-18:00, room P5
- Tuesday, 12:30-14:00, room M5
- Wednesday, 12:30-14:00, room P100
Course Outline (topics covered)
1. Review of basic concepts
2. Fluid Statics
3. Representation of Flow Fields
4. Global Conservation of Mass and Momentum
5. Local Conservation of Mass and Momentum
6. Boundary Conditions
7. Dynamic Similarity
8. Inviscid Flow
9. Applications of Bernoulli's Equation
10. Potential Flows
11. Examples of Potential Flows
12. Pressure, Drag and Lift for Potential Flows
13. Flow Transitions -- Hydraulic Jumps
14. Steady Viscous Flow
15. Steady Viscous Flow (Couette & Poiseuille Flow)
16. Unsteady Viscous Flow (Impulsively Started Plate and Oscillating Plate) – Stokes First and Second Problems
17. Boundary Layers
18. Boundary Layer over a Flat Plate – Blasius Problem
19. Pressure gradient effects on the boundary layer; flow separation
20. Vorticity
21. Introduction to Turbulence
22. Turbulent Kinetic Energy Equation & Turbulence Cascade
23. Wall-free and Wall-bounded shear flows -- Law of the Wall
24. Turbulence Closure Models
25. Shallow Water Equations
26. Low Reynolds Number Flows
Homework is an integral part of the course grade and shall be turned in on time; no late homework accepted
Homework and Final Project are designed to practice two essentials: oral and written communications
No use of cell phones (no texting or calling) allowed during class
Grading – methods of evaluation: homework and final project
Homework: 60%
Homework will include:
a) Presentations (2 types: i) on a scientist, and ii) rap about previous class) at the beginning of each class; and
b) exercises that sometimes require programing (Matlab, Python, R, IDL)
Final project: 40% (30% of this will be from oral presentation and 70% of this will be from written presentation).
Both homework and final project will have corresponding rubrics
Introduce students to the physics of mainly liquid or incompressible fluids. In particular, to familiarize the student with the study of the topics outlined below.
Meeting Times and Places:
- Monday, 16:30-18:00, room P5
- Tuesday, 12:30-14:00, room M5
- Wednesday, 12:30-14:00, room P100
Course Outline (topics covered)
1. Review of basic concepts
2. Fluid Statics
3. Representation of Flow Fields
4. Global Conservation of Mass and Momentum
5. Local Conservation of Mass and Momentum
6. Boundary Conditions
7. Dynamic Similarity
8. Inviscid Flow
9. Applications of Bernoulli's Equation
10. Potential Flows
11. Examples of Potential Flows
12. Pressure, Drag and Lift for Potential Flows
13. Flow Transitions -- Hydraulic Jumps
14. Steady Viscous Flow
15. Steady Viscous Flow (Couette & Poiseuille Flow)
16. Unsteady Viscous Flow (Impulsively Started Plate and Oscillating Plate) – Stokes First and Second Problems
17. Boundary Layers
18. Boundary Layer over a Flat Plate – Blasius Problem
19. Pressure gradient effects on the boundary layer; flow separation
20. Vorticity
21. Introduction to Turbulence
22. Turbulent Kinetic Energy Equation & Turbulence Cascade
23. Wall-free and Wall-bounded shear flows -- Law of the Wall
24. Turbulence Closure Models
25. Shallow Water Equations
26. Low Reynolds Number Flows
Homework is an integral part of the course grade and shall be turned in on time; no late homework accepted
Homework and Final Project are designed to practice two essentials: oral and written communications
No use of cell phones (no texting or calling) allowed during class
Grading – methods of evaluation: homework and final project
Homework: 60%
Homework will include:
a) Presentations (2 types: i) on a scientist, and ii) rap about previous class) at the beginning of each class; and
b) exercises that sometimes require programing (Matlab, Python, R, IDL)
Final project: 40% (30% of this will be from oral presentation and 70% of this will be from written presentation).
Both homework and final project will have corresponding rubrics
