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

    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

    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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