CATALOG DATA:
Properties and solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations, high and low Reynolds number approximations for steady and unsteady flows.

TEXTBOOK:
White, F.M., Viscous Fluid Flow, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974.

REFERENCES:
Schlichting, H., Boundary Layer Theory, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979. Panton, R.L., Incompressible Flow, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

GOALS:
This course is designed to introduce first year graduate students to the fundamentals of viscous fluid flows.

Prerequisites:
AME 60635 (538)

Topics:

• Exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations: Stagnation point flow, Couette flow, Poiseuille flow, flow over a rotating disk, Stoke's first and second problems.
• Low Reynolds number flows: Flow over a sphere; Stokes and Oseen, lubrication theory, Reynolds equation, falling body problems.
• High Reynolds number flows-laminar boundary layers: Similarity transformations, Blasius solution, Falkner-Skan flows, jets shear layers and wakes.
• Boundary layer separation.
• Rotationally asymmetric boundary layers, Mangler transformation.
• Advanced topics: Arbitrary three-dimensional boundary layers, unsteady laminar boundary layers, boundary layer control, turbulent boundary layers.

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared the course description:
Engineering Science: 3 credits or 100%
Engineering Design: 0 credits

Prepared by: Professor Albin Szewczyk
Last Update: March 27, 1992

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