Perturbation Methods for Fluids

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 520. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Application of asymptotic methods to fluid mechanics, with special emphasis on the method of matched expansions. Regular perturbation solutions; suppression of secular terms; method of multiple scales; boundary layer and low Reynolds number flows by inner and outer expansions; phenomena in rotating flows. Applications to computational fluid mechanics.