OCEN 678 Fluid
Dynamics for Ocean and Environmental Engineering
Spring 2003, MWF 1:50 - 2:40, Room 137 Civil Engineering Building
Course Description (from Graduate Catalog): General conservation laws; Navier-Stokes equations; steady and unsteady Bernoulli's equation; potential flow theory and basics of panel methods; laminar and turbulent boundary layer; dispersion and diffusion processes in laminar and turbulent flow; flow past a body of any shape.
Prerequisite: CVEN 462 or approval of instructor
Instructor: Kuang-An
Chang
Wisenbaker 235B; Tel.: 845-4504; Email: kchang@tamu.edu
Office Hours: T R 2:00 - 3:30 or by appointment
Textbook: Fluid Mechanics, 2nd edition, P. K. Kundu and I. M. Cohen, Academic Press, 2002
References:
An Album of Fluid Motion, M. Van Dyke, Parabolic Press, 1982
Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics, Homsy et al., Cambridge University Press, 2000
An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, G. K. Batchelor, Cambridge University Press, 1967
Incompressible Flow, R. L. Panton, John Wiley & Sons, 1984
Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids, I. G. Currie, McGraw-Hill, 1974
A First Course in Turbulence, H. Tennekes and J. L. Lumley, MIT Press, 1972
Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters, Fisher et al., Academic Press, 1979
Course Outline:
1. Introduction
2. Cartesian Tensors
3. Kinematics
4. Conservation Laws
5. Vorticity Dynamics
6. Irrotational Flow
7. Laminar Flow
8. Boundary Layers
9. Turbulent Flow
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Homework |
30% |