MecE 430 (Fluid Mechanics II) -- Winter 2018

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Course syllabus
Problem sets

Exams:
50 minute in-class midterm exam scheduled for Friday, Feb. 16
2 hour final exam scheduled for Friday, Apr. 23 from 9 to 11 AM (Pavilion, Rows 31, 33, 35 [seats 1-25])
Winter 2017 final exam
Winter 2017 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 (from softpedia.com)
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)
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)
Sharp corners on fighter jets (from Google images)
theta vs. beta (high resolution) (Chart 2, Report 1135 - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
Oblique shock example (figure)
Prandtl-Meyer supersonic expansion function (k=1.4)
Adiabatic frictional pipeflow (constant area, k=1.4) table

Links (Midterm and final exams):
Figure 1 to be provided for midterm exam
Figure 2 to be provided for midterm exam
Tables and figures to be provided for final exam
Online stopwatch