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ENME 4630 & 4800 -- Advanced Fluid Dynamics

Spring Quarter 2004

Professor:
Corinne Lengsfeld
        Office: CMK 204
        Office hours: by appointment
Location:
5-6:30pm MW             CMK205

Text:
Fluid Mechanics by Kundo and Cohen, 2nd edition, Academic Press                                              ISBN 0-12-178251-4 (Required)

The following  will be utilized to prepare lectures and may help students learn. The texts are considered optional
Viscous Flow by White, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill                                                                                 ISBN0-07-069712-4
The Properties of Liquids and Gases by  Reid, Prausnitz and Poling, 4th edition, McGraw Hill     ISBN 0-07-051799-1
Introduction to Practical Fluid Flow by King, Butterworth Heinemann                                           ISBN 0-7506-4885-6

Grades:

Exam #1 -- 33%
Exam #2 -- 33%
Homework  -- 33%

Content (subject to change depending on time limitations):
Introduction [Chapter 1 - 3]                                                                                    [1 class]
    Calculating transport properties 
            surface tension using Parachor method
            viscosity via Mcleod, etc
    Equation of state
                Ideal gas
                Van der Waals
                Peng-Robinson

Conservation Laws [Chapter 4]                                                                                [1 class]
    Continuity
    Navier-Stokes
    Euler Equation
    Deformation work and viscous dissipation
   
Vorticity Dynamics [Chapter 5]                                                                                 [1 class]
    Kelvin's Circulation Theorem
    Helmholtz Vortex Theorem

Irrotational Flow and Aerodynamic Design [Chapter 6 & 15]                                    [4 classes]
    Potential flow
    Conformal mapping
    Circulation and lift
    Conformal Transformation
    Lift of Zhukhovsky Airfoil

Boundary Layers [Chapter 10]                                                                                  [2 classes]
    Blasius Solution
    Falkner-Skan solution
    Stokes 2nd Problem

Instability and Wave Motion [Chapter 7 & 12]                                                           [2 classes]
    Kelvin-Helmholtz
    Surface waves
            Shallow and deep water
            influence of surface tension

Turbulence [Chapter 13]                                                                                            [9 classes]
    Reynolds decomposition
    Kinetic energy cascade
    Length scales
    Law of the wall
    Free jet
    Closure models
                Eddy mixing length
                1st and 2nd order equations
                K-epsilon
                LES
                DNS

Last updated March 17, 2004