ME-632 FLUID DYNAMICS
Credit Hours = 3
COURSE CONTENT
- Constitutive relations for fluids, The Navier-Stokes Equations, Vorticity Equation, Three-Dimensional Incompressible and Inviscid Flow Three-Dimensional Source and Doublet Flow over a Sphere, unsteady boundary layer, Boundary layer on convex and concave walls, Three dimensional boundary layers, Theory of stability, effect of pressure gradient on transition in boundary layer, Longitudinal Static Stability, Stick-free vs. Stick-fixed stability, Neutral point, Static margin, Lagrange’s law, Kepler’s law, VIS-VIVA energy equation,
Pressure-Defection Diagrams, Crocco's Theorem, Linearized Velocity Potential Equation, Linearized Pressure Coefficient, Physical Aspects of Conical Flow, Quantitative Formulation, Determination of the Characteristic Lines and Compatibility Equation, Method of Characteristics for Rotational flow, MacCormack's Technique, Solutions of the Small-Perturbation Velocity Potential Equation, The Murman and Cole Method
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
- Text book(s)
- J.H. Spurk, N. Aksel, Fluid Mechanics, 3rd edition, Springer, 2020
- Reference Book(s)
- F. White, Viscous Fluid Flow, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2006.
