58:160 Intermediate Mechanics of Fluids
College of Engineering, The University of Iowa


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Class news

11/18/2008: Due date for CFD lab 4 (Ahmad Car) is postponed to Dec. 8th.

10/27/2008: Grades for 2nd Mid-Term Exam are posted (Grades).

10/23/2008: HW solutions of chapter 5 are posted (Schedule).

10/20/2008: 2nd Mid-Term Exam will be held at 3315 SC and 4030 SC.

Students with first letter of last name A-K:3315 SC; L-Z: 4030 SC

 

10/17/2008: For plots showing CFD and EFD comparison in CFD Lab 3 (diffuser), if you have problems of changing the style of the imported EFD data, please use the default EFD style and change the CFD style using circle symbols.

 

10/17/2008: Problems solved in the class on Oct.17th are posted (Schedule).

 

10/16/2008: CFD lab 3 is changed to be for diffuser and CFD lab 4 is modified to be for Ahmad car (Schedule).

 

09/05/2008: FlowLab configuration

 

Quick information

Class Location:  3315 SC
Time and Days:  10:30 am - 11:20 am MWF
Instructor:  Professor Frederick Stern
Office: 223C Hydraulics Lab
Phone:  335-5215
email:  
frederick-stern@uiowa.edu
office hours: 3:00pm - 4:00pm MWF (or by appointment)
 

ISTUE Project Website:
http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/~istue
Research websites:
http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/~shiphydro

Teaching Assistants

Name

EMAIL

Duties

Office hours (IIHR)

Tao Xing

Tao-xing@uiowa.edu

CFD

Office: 223F SHL

Hamid Sadat-Hosseini/RA

hamid-sadathosseini@uiowa.edu

Overall TA

3:30-4:30 (M, W,F 223-6 SHL)

Maysam Mousaviraad/RA

Maysam-mousaviraad@uiowa.edu

CFD Lab

2:30-3:20 (F, 1307 SC)

Bonguk Koo/TA

bonguk-koo@uiowa.edu

HW grader

Office: 223-19 SHL

Lecture notes

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3&4
    Curvilinear coordinates

    Absolute inertial, relative inertial, and non-inertial coordinates

Chapter 5
    Example1

Example2
Chapter 6

TKE/Reynolds stress budgets for canonical flows


Chapter 7
    Boundary layer separation

Bluff Body

Free shear flows
Chapter 8

 

CFD labs

ISTUE ASEE Papers: Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
 

Lab Report Instructions (PDF, DOC)
 

CFD lecture: Introduction to CFD , Numerical methods for CFD
 Turbulence modeling for CFD  Grid Generation and Post-Processing for CFD

CFD UA: Reference 1, Reference 2

CFD Labs will be held at Seamans Center: No. 1231 Elder Computer Lab, and No. 1220 Hering Computer Lab

To run Flowlab follow: Start menu/ All programs/ engineering software/ Flowlab 1.2.10; template names: pipe-airfoil-diffuser-Ahmed car.

CFD lab1: Pipe flow
(PDF, DOC)

Lab1 Concepts

 

 

EFD data:

axialvelocityAFD-laminar-pipe.xy

axialvelocityEFD-turbulent-pipe.xy

pressure-EFD-turbulent-pipe.xy

 

CFD lab2: Airfoil
(PDF, DOC)

Reference 1

Lab2 Concepts

 

EFD data:

Pressure-coef-attack0.xy

Pressure-coef-attack06.xy

Pressure-coef-attack13.xy

Pressure-coef-attack16.xy

CFD lab3: Diffuser
(PDF, DOC)

Reference 1

Lab3 Concepts

 

EFD data:

Modified_u-10degree.xy

Modified_TKE-10degree.xy

Skin_friction_bot_wall.xy

Skin_friction_top_wall.xy

CFD lab4: Ahmed Car
(PDF, DOC)

Reference 1

Reference 2

Lab4 Concepts

EFD data:

Modified_u_slant25.xy

 

 

 

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