Course Specifications
Textbook: Fluid Mechanics, 3rd, or 4th Eds., Cengel and Cimbala, 2014. (ISBN-978-0-07-338032-2)
Instructor: Goodarz Ahmadi (CAMP 267, 268-2322)
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Teaching Assistant: Abbas Khanmohamadi, Office Hours: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm CAMP 275
Prerequisites: ES330, MA 212
Course Learning Objectives
- Students to learn the fundamentals of viscous incompressible flows.
- Students to learn the basics of non-viscous potential flows.
- Students to learn the fundamentals of computational fluid mechanics.
- Students to learn the fundamentals of compressible flows.
Course Learning Outcomes
Objective 1:
- Students will be able to formulate and solve incompressible laminar flows for simple parallel flows in Cartesian and polar coordinates.
- Students will be able to analyze boundary layer flows over a flat plate.
- Students will be able to estimate drag forces in laminar and turbulent flows for different immersed bodies.
Objective 2:
- Students will become familiar with the stream function, potential functions, and elementary potential flows.
- Students will be able to handle simple potential flow by the method of superposition.
Objective 3:
- Students will become familiar with computational fluid mechanics.
- Students will demonstrate using the FLUENT Code for solving two-dimensional laminar and turbulent flows.
Objective 4:
- Students will be able to analyze one-dimensional isentropic compressible flows.
- Students will be able to handle one-dimensional flows with shock waves.
- Students will be able to handle one-dimensional compressible flows with friction.
| Dates | Text Sections | Topic | Homework |
| 1. Jan. 11- 12 | 4.1 | Application, Review of ES330 | — |
| 2. Jan. 15-19 | 9.1,2,3 | Review of Differential Eqs., Balance Laws, Viscous Flows | HW-1 4.19, 9.28, 30, 31, 34, 36, 38 |
| 3. Jan. 22-26 | 9.4,5,6 | Navier Stokes Equation, Viscous Parallel flows | HW-2 9.86, 87, 89, 91, 95 |
| 4. Jan. 29-Feb. 2 | 9.6 | Exact Solutions, Approximate Solutions | HW-3 9.96, 101, 102, 103, 104 |
| 5. Feb. 5-9 | 10.6 | Boundary Layer, Introduction to CFD | HW-4 10.99, 100, 102, 114, 115, 116 |
| 6. Feb. 12-16 | 10.6, 11.1-4 | Boundary-Layer, Turbulent Boundary Layer, Introduction to CFD | HW-5 11.51, 65, 99, 106 |
| 7. Feb. 19-21 | 11.1-4 | Immersed Bodies, Drag forces | —– |
| Feb. 22-23 | February Recess | ||
| 8. Feb. 26-Mar. 1 | 9.3, 10.2-4 | Stream Function, Inviscid Flows | HW-6 10.56, 59, 60, 66, 71 |
| Friday, Mar. 1 | Exam 1 | CAMP177. 178 (4:00-5:15 pm) | |
| 9. Mar. 4-8 | 10.5 | Inviscid Irrotational Flows | HW-7. Assigned Problems |
| 10. Mar. 11-15 | 12.1-3 | Acoustic Waves, Isentropic Flows | HW-8. 12.7, 9, 25, 26, 27 |
| 11. Mar. 18-22 | Spring Recess | ||
| 12. Mar. 25-29 | 12.3 | Isentropic Flows, CFD | HW-9. 12.38, 40, 45, 48, 50 |
| Friday, Mar. 29 | Exam 2 | CAMP 177, 178 43:00-5:15 pm) | |
| 13. Apr. 1-5 | 12.4 | Normal Shock, Nozzles, CFD | HW-10. 12.62, 63, 65, 66, 69, 70 |
| 14. Apr. 8-12 | 12.5,6 | Flows with Heat Transfer Flows with Friction | HW-11. 12.87,88,93, 95 |
| 15. Apr. 15-19 | 12.6 | Flows with Friction | HW-12. 12.105, 106, 107, 109, 114 |
| 16. Apr. 22-26 | Review | ||
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| Final Week, | Final Exam |
Evaluation Methods
- Homework and quizzes 10%
- Exam 1 25% Friday, March 1, CAMP 177, 178, 4:00-5:15 pm
- Exam 2 20% Friday, March 29, CAMP 177, 178, 4:00-5:15 pm
- Final Exam 30%
- Projects 15%
Course Description
ME 326 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics R-3, C-3.
Prerequisites: ES 330 (Fluid Mechanics), ES 340 (Thermodynamics), MA 232 (Differential Equations).
A continuation of ES 330.
Topics include: deformation and stress in fluids; basic conservation laws; kinematics of fluid flow; theory of potential flow; introduction to compressible flows; isentropic flows and shock waves; compressible flows with friction and heat transfer; Navier-Stokes equation and theory of viscous flow; low Reynolds number flows with applications to hydrodynamic lubrication; laminar boundary layer theory and von Karman momentum integral method; introduction to computational fluid dynamics; applications of fluid mechanics to engineering problems including turbomachinery. Introduction to design concepts.
Exam & Homework Policies
Exam Policy
Hourly Exams will be closed book, and formula sheets will be provided in the hourly exam sheets. The final exam will be an open book. The students are permitted to bring their textbooks to the final exam. Notes and homework solutions are not allowed.
Homework Policy
Homework must be submitted in pdf form to Moodle on the due date. Homework will be graded and posted on Moodle.