Lecture-by-Lecture Course Outline, Fall 2008
Date Lecture No. TOPIC READING ASSIGNMENT*
9/3-5 1 Cartesian tensors §2.1-2.16
2 Flow kinematics §3.1-3.14
9/8-12 3 Mass and momentum laws §4.1-4.9
4 Navier-Stokes and energy equations §4.10-4.15
9/15-19 5 Bernoulli equation §4.16-4.19
6 Vortex line and tubes §5.1-5.4
9/22-26 7 Vorticity dynamics §5.5-5.8
8 Description of irrotational flows §6.1-6.7
9/29-10/3 9 Two-dimensional irrotational flows §6.8-6.11
10 Dimensional analysis §8.1-8.4
10/6-10 11 Dynamic similarity and model testing §8.5-8.7
12 Couette and plane Poiseuille flows §§9.1-9.5
10/13-17 13 Unsteady Viscous flows §9.6-9.10
(Midterm Exam)
10/20-24 14 Creeping Flow Solution §9.11-9.15
15 Creeping Flow & Lubrication Theory
10/27-31 16 Boundary layer flow on a flat plate §10.1-10.5
17 Karman momentum integral §10.6-10.8
11/3-7 18 Flows around cylinder and sphere §10.9-10.11
19 Statistical description of turbulence §13.1-13.7
11/10-14 20 Turbulence modeling §13.8-13.13
21 Turbulent dispersion §13.15
11/17-21 22 Introduction to compressible flow §16.1-16.3
23 One dimensional isentropic flow §16.4-16.5
11/24-28 (Thanksgiving break)
12/1-5 24 Shock wave and flows in nozzles §16.6-16.7
25 Oblique shock waves §16.9-16.12
12/8-10 26 Review
12/12-19 (Final Exam)
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