AME 90933 (611): DYNAMICS OF COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS

CATALOG DATA:
Theoretical gas dynamics, including properties of compressible real fluids and fundamental relations for subsonic and supersonic flows.

TEXTBOOK:
Anderson, John D., Modern Compressible Flow, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982.

REFERENCES:
Zucrow, Maurice J. and Hoffman, Joe D., Gas Dynamics, Volume 1, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1976. Saad, Michael A., Compressible Fluid Flow, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1985.

GOALS:
This course presents the fundamentals of classical compressible flow including real gas effects. Recent numerical approaches to the solution of practical problems are also discussed. Prerequisites:
Consent of instructor; thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, one-dimensional compressible flow.

Topics:

• Two-dimensional steady flow: Oblique shock and expansion waves.
• Crocco's theorem.
• Linearized flows.
• Conical flow.
• Method of characteristics.
• Time-dependent finite difference techniques.
• Three-dimensional flow, transonic flow, hypersonic flow.
• High temperature gas projection.
• High temperature flows.
• Applications.
• Exams.

Computer Usage:
Design of a 2-D supersonic nozzle using method of characteristics; time-dependent, finite difference solution of 2-D supersonic nozzle flow or similar.

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 Thomas J. Mueller
Last Update: March 27, 1992

 

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