AE 101c: FLUID MECHANICS
| Instructor: | Beverley J. McKeon | |
| 120 Karman, 626.395.4460 | ||
| Email: mckeon (at) caltech (dot) edu | ||
| Office hours: Please email for an appointment | ||
| Lectures: | Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays 10:00 - 10:55am | |
| 306 Firestone | ||
| References: | No single text (see master list for the class). | |
| TAs: | Philipp Boettcher | philipp (at) caltech (dot) edu |
| Sally Moffett | sallym (at) caltech (dot) edu | |
| Adam Norman | norman (at) caltech (dot) edu | |
| Office Hours: | Wednesday, Thursday pm. | |
| Homework: | Homework will be assigned on Fridays and due in class the following Friday, unless otherwise stated. | |
| You may discuss the problem set solutions with your classmates, but we expect that everyone will try each problem on their own and that each solution is the result of that student's individual effort. Graduate students are bound to follow the Caltech Honor Code. | ||
| Use of packages such as Matlab and/or Mathematica is permitted (but will not necessarily be useful). | ||
| Late Policy: | Late homeworks will be subject to a points penalty and will not be accepted unless you have emailed Dr. McKeon for an extension in advance of the due date. Problem sets will generally only be accepted up to 5 days late (i.e. usually Wednesday 5:00pm) with a penalty of 5 points per day. | |
| Exams: | There will be a mid-term exam and a final exam. | |
| Grading: | The weighting for the final grade will be as follows: | |
| Homework | 30% | |
| Midterm Exam | 30% | |
| Final Exam | 40% | |
| Websites: | http://www.mckeon.caltech.edu/ae101/index.html | |
| http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~jeshep/Ae101/ | ||
COURSE OUTLINE:
- 7. VISCOSITY (LAMINAR FLOW)
- a) Viscous stress tensor
- b) Navier-Stokes equations
- c) Dimensional analysis, important dimensionless numbers
- d) Pipe flow, Couette flow
- e) Low-Reynolds' number flow
- f) Boundary layers
- g) Rayleigh problem
- h) Blasius problem
- i) Karman integral relation
- j) Displacement, momentum thickness
- k) Separation
- l) Exact solutions, stagnation point flow, Falkner-skan flows
- m) Howarth-Dorodnitsyn transformation and compressible boundary layer
- b) Navier-Stokes equations
- 8. TURBULENCE
- a) Instability and transition
- b) Reynolds' decomposition, stresses
- c) Channel and pipe flow, pressure drop correlations, friction factor
- d) Boundary layers, skin-friction coefficient, log-layer
- e) Flow over cylinders and spheres, drag laws
- f) Jets and wakes, entrainment
- b) Reynolds' decomposition, stresses
PROBLEM SETS:
| Assigned: | Due: | Solutions: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Problem Set 1 | April 4 | April 11 | Solution Set 1 |
| Problem Set 2 | April 11 | April 18 | Solution Set 2 |
| Problem Set 3 | April 18 | April 25 | Solution Set 3 |
| Problem Set 4 | April 25 | May 9 | Solution Set 4 |
| Mid-Term | April 30 | May 5 | Mid-Term Solutions |
| Problem Set 5 | May 9 | May 16 | Solution Set 5 |
| Problem Set 6 | May 16 | May 23 | Solution Set 6 |
| Problem Set 7 | May 23 | May 30 | Solution Set 7 |
| High_Re_data_PS7.xls | |||
| Final Exam | 6/6/08, 8am | 6/6/08, 2pm | Final Solution Set |
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