Course Description
CE/ME 101abc. Fluid Mechanics. 9 units (3-0-6);
first, second, third terms.
Prerequisites: ME 19 abc or equivalent;
AMa 95 abc or AM 114 abc (may be taken concurrently).
- First quarter: Kinematics of flow fields; General equations of fluid motion; Control
volume analysis; Vorticity transport; Two and three dimensional potential flow.
- Second quarter: Creeping flows; Viscous flow; Laminar
boundary layer theory; Stability and transition to turbulence;
Introduction to turbulence; Engineering prediction of turbulent shear
flows.
- Third quarter: One dimensional gasdynamics;
Shock waves; Expansion fans; Acoustic waves; Finite amplitude waves and the method of
characterististics; Linear and nonlinear water waves; Waves in
stratified flows.
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