MecE 430 (Fluid Mechanics II) -- Fall 2019
Course syllabus
Problem sets
Exams:
50 minute in-class midterm exam scheduled for Friday, Nov. 1
Solutions to Fall 2019 midterm exam (Part 1)
Solutions to Fall 2019 midterm exam (Part 2)
2 hour final exam scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 18 from 2 to 4 PM (University Pavilion)
Winter 2019 final exam (note that Question 2 covers isothermal pipeline flow, which will not appear on the Fall 2019 final exam)
Winter 2019 final exam solutions
Links (Incompressbile flow):
Numerical simulation of a turbulent boundary layer over a airplane wing
Stress tensor image (from wikimedia)
Navier Stokes equations (from wikipedia)
Moody diagram
NCFMF video on turbulence (narrated by Robert Stewart) (from YouTube)
Surface roughness (from aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0215.shtml)
Boundary layer transition (from aerospaceengineeringblog.com/boundary-layers)
Blasius solution
Links (Compressible flow):
Isentropic flow table (perfect gas, k=1.4)
Normal shock table (perfect gas, k=1.4)
Hierarchy of shocks in a converging-diverging nozzle (figure 9.12 of Potter & Wiggert's Fluid Mechanics)
Shallow water flow over isolated topography
Supersonic flow about a blunt body (from wikipedia)
Shallow water flow past a cylinder (figure 2.4 of Baines's Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows)
Oblique shock schematic
theta vs. beta (low resolution) (from wikipedia)
theta vs. beta (high resolution) (Chart 2, Report 1135 - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
Oblique shock example (figure)
Mach wave schematic
Prandtl-Meyer supersonic expansion function (k=1.4)
Adiabatic frictional pipeflow (constant area, k=1.4) table
Links (Midterm and final exams):
Material to be provided for the midterm exam
Material to be provided for final exam
Online stopwatch