MECH 361: Fluid Mechanics II

Description: Differential analysis of fluid flows, vorticity, stream function, stresses, and strains. Navier‑Stokes equations and solutions for parallel flows. Euler’s equations, irrotational and potential flows, plane potential flows. Viscous flows in pipes, laminar and turbulent flows, major and minor losses. Flow over immersed bodies, boundary layers, separation and thickness. Drag, lift and applications. Introduction to compressible flows, speed of sound, Mach cone, and some characteristics of supersonic flows.

ENGR 243: Dynamics

Description: Kinematics of a Particle and Rigid Body – Translation, Rotation, and General Plan Motion 
Kinetics analysis (Force & Acceleration) – (Work & Energy) – (Impulse and Momentum) 
Dynamics of a System of Particles and Rigid Bodies 
Introduction to Vibration.

Graduate courses

MECH 6121: Aerodynamics

Description: Flow conservation equations, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, inviscid irrotational and rotational flows: the Euler equations, the potential and stream function equations. Kelvin, Stokes and Helmholtz theorems. Elementary flows and their superposition, panel method for non-lifting bodies. Airfoil and wing characteristics, aerodynamics forces and moments coefficients. Flow around thin airfoils, Biot-Savart law, vortex sheets. Flow around thick airfoils, the panel method for lifting bodies. Flow around wings, Prandtl’s lifting line theory, induced angle and downwash, unswept wings, swept compressibility correction rules, the area rule. Transonic flow: small disturbance equation, full potential equation, supercritical airfoils. A project on specific topic or applications is required.