Ae/Aph/CE/ME 101b: Fluid Mechanics
This class is the introductory graduate course in fluid dynamics in the EAS division at Caltech. This course is three terms and covers basic incompressible and compressible fluid mechanics. The material covered in this course forms the basis for the qualifying exam in fluid mechanics that all Aeronautics students who wish to enter the PhD program must take. This qualifying exam presently takes place in the fall term of the second year of graduate study.
Lectures
MWF 10:00am - 10:55am, Lee-Kubota lecture hall (101 Guggenheim)
Contact Information
| Instructor: | Professor Dale Pullin Office: 306F Guggenheim Phone: x6081 Email: dale@galcit.caltech.edu |
| Teaching Assistants: | Ian Jacobi |
Yue Yang |
Handouts
Reference Material
- Joe Shepherd's skeleton guide
- Brad Sturtevant's more comprehensive notes
- Units, constants, & conversion factors
- The Kronecker & Dirac delta functions
- The Fourier transform
- Hyperbolic systems and characteristic theory
- NACA report 1135
Homeworks
- Problem Set 1 (Due Jan 16) Solution 1
- Problem Set 2 (Due Jan 23) Solution 2
- Problem Set 3 (Due Jan 30) Solution 3
- Problem Set 4 (Due Feb 6) Solution 4
- Problem Set 5 (Due Feb 20) Solution 5
- Problem Set 6 (Due Feb 27) Solution 6
- Problem Set 7 (Due Mar 6) Solution 7
- Problem Set 8 (Due Mar 13) Solution 8
Exams
- Midterm Exam (Due Feb 13) Histogram
- Final Exam (Due March 18) Histogram
