Advanced Fluid Mechanics II

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 520. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Viscous flow fundamentals; vorticity dynamics; solution of the Navier-Stokes equations in their approximate forms; thin shear layers and free surface flows; hydrodynamic stability and transition to turbulence; fundamental concepts of turbulence; the turbulent boundary layer; introduction to turbulence modeling.