MECH&AE 250A

Main Course

Foundations of Fluid Dynamics

Description

Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 150A. Corequisite: course 182B. Development and application of fundamental principles of fluid mechanics at graduate level, with emphasis on incompressible flow. Flow kinematics, basic equations, constitutive relations, exact solutions on the Navier-Stokes equations, vorticity dynamics, decomposition of flow fields, potential flow. Letter grading.

Prerequisites

• Required: MECH&AE 150A

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