Fluid Dynamics

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to graduate-level fluid dynamics. Specific learning outcomes include deriving and understanding the governing equations of fluid mechanics; applying basic equations of fluid motion to understand inviscid fluids, Newtonian fluids, and incompressible fluids; analyzing potential flows using stream functions and potential functions; deriving exact solutions of fluid equations for special flow cases; and introducing the concept of boundary layers and deriving similarity solutions for boundary layer equations. (Prerequisites: undergraduate-level fluid dynamics.) Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have received credit for AE/ME 5101 or AE/ME 5107.