Part-Time Programs in Engineering and Applied Science, Johns Hopkins University

Advanced Fluid Mechanics
535.120


Course Description
The course covers gas dynamics; propulsion and elementary mathematical development of two-dimensional ideal fluid flow; Euler’s equations; sources and sinks; potential flow; boundary conditions; circulation; simple flows; and fluid machinery.

Syllabus

  1. Introduction
  2. Fluid Statics
  3. Force on Immersed Surface
  4. Bernoulli eq
  5. Bernoulii eq Application
  6. Fluid Kinematics
  7. Reynold Transport eq
  8. Review and Test
  9. Differential Approach
  10. Differential Approach
  11. Dimensional Analysis
  12. Dimensional Analysis
  13. Simulation
  14. Review and Test

Prerequisites
535.119 Fluid Mechanics.

Instructor
Chih Wu received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in mechanical engineering in 1966. Dr. Wu has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at U.S. Naval Academy since 1966.

Textbook
Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics by Munson, Young and Okiishi


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October 1997