ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS

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(Slashed with ENGR 85501 ) Kinematics of fluid motion. Constitutive equations of isotropic viscous compressible fluids. Derivation of Navier-Stokes equations. Lessons from special exact solutions, self-similarity. Admissibility of idealizations and their applications: inviscid, adiabatic, irrotational, incompressible, boundary layer, quasi one-dimensional, linearized and creeping flows. This course covers the topics of vorticity theorems, unsteady Bernoulli equation, basic flow solutions and basic features of turbulent flows. This course requires an undergraduate level understanding of differential equations and fluid mechanics.