MAK 503E - Advanced Fluid Dynamics

Course Objectives

• provide graduate students with knowledge in the key areas of advanced fluid dynamics.
• use this knowledge in the solution of engineering problems of interest.

Course Description

Basic concepts. Flow kinematics. Classification of fluid motion. Conservation equations of viscous flows. Vorticity transport equation. Low-Reynolds number flows. Exact solution of viscous flow problems: Laminar boundary layers, Similarity solutions. Momentum Integral formulation. Boundary layer separation, Laminar jets, Free shear layers. Introduction to flow instability and turbulence.