ENGINE GAS DYNAMICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the major physical processes that occur in gas dynamic flows within internal combustion engines. Audience: Graduate 2. Evaluate the performance and design of the principal air-handling systems in engine combustion. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply control volume analysis to solve fluid mechanics problems, for fluids at rest and in movement Audience: Graduate 4. Use the equations of fluid mechanics to solve realistic engineering problems involving fluids by making appropriate assumptions Audience: Graduate 5. Develop a mathematical working knowledge of the common manipulations that are performed for three dimensional time-dependent flows Audience: Graduate 6. Implement numerical solutions to selected fluid problems Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the major physical processes that occur in gas dynamic flows within internal combustion engines. Audience: Graduate 2. Evaluate the performance and design of the principal air-handling systems in engine combustion. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply control volume analysis to solve fluid mechanics problems, for fluids at rest and in movement Audience: Graduate 4. Use the equations of fluid mechanics to solve realistic engineering problems involving fluids by making appropriate assumptions Audience: Graduate 5. Develop a mathematical working knowledge of the common manipulations that are performed for three dimensional time-dependent flows Audience: Graduate 6. Implement numerical solutions to selected fluid problems Audience: Graduate