Fluid Dynamics

(3 Credits)

Conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations. Basic theory of inviscid incompressible and barotropic fluids. Kinematics and dynamics of vorticity and circulation. Special solutions to the Euler equations: potential flows, rotational flows, conformal mapping methods. The Navier-Stokes equations and special solutions thereof. Boundary layer theory. Boundary conditions. The Stokes equations.