Advanced Fluid Mechanics. 3 credits

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The course is intended to provide engineering students with the opportunity to apply theoretical ideas developed in ME 621 to specific problems in inviscid and viscous flows, including turbulence. We will be exclusively concerned with incompressible flows. Although this is not a CFD course, a full understanding of theoretical aspects of fluid mechanics is a prerequisite for understanding and using CFD-simulations. Models used in CFD such as k-epsilon, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS), Large-eddy (LES), and Direct (DNS) will be discussed. Specially designed projects are intended to enable students to apply what they have learned to different flow situations. Offered by Mechanical Engineering . May not be repeated for credit.