Course Overview
This course covers select topics in fluid mechanics. Topics include control-volume analysis, governing equations in differential form (Navier-Stokes equations), stream function, vorticity, and velocity potential, flow past immersed bodies, boundary layer theory and compressible flow. Builds on concepts learned in MECH 3325.
Prerequisite(s)
- 50% in MECH 7171
Credits
4.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply control-volume analysis to a wide range of problems [1,2]
- Explain lift and drag forces on airfoils and bluff bodies [2]
- Predict compressible/supersonic flow in nozzles using 1D gas dynamics equations [2,3]
- Apply boundary layer analysis to laminar and turbulent flows [1,2]
- Explain vorticity and its effect on velocity potentials and stream functions [1,2]
- Apply conservation laws in differential form [2]
- Obtain analytical and numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for fully developed laminar flow in ducts [3]
Effective as of Winter 2021
Related Programs
Fluid Mechanics 2 (MECH 7225) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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School of Energy
- Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering Full-time
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