58:160 (53:169) INTERMEDIATE MECHANICS OF FLUIDS: FALL 2008

Instructor:                   Fred Stern 223c IIHR 5-5215

Class Time/Place:      10:30-11:20 MWF 3315 SC classroom

Office Hours:             12:30-1:30 MWF or by appointment

Text:                           Fluid Mechanics, 6^th Edition McGraw Hill, White.

Intermediate Mechanics of Fluids follows the core course 57:020 Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes in the undergraduate curriculum at The University of Iowa and suitable for senior-level undergraduates and beginning-level graduate students. Since students expected to have had only one previous course in fluids, the only prerequisite for this course is 57:020 or an equivalent course from another university. For students who have taken more than one course in fluid mechanics, it is recommended that they take more advanced courses Inviscid Flow and Viscous Flow; however, in some cases, the present course may be useful as review for the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam. The course provides background for more advanced courses in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and other engineering disciplines such as hydraulic, bio, or chemical engineering or greater understanding of fluid mechanics for students who wish to enter engineering practice after the completion of the B.S. degree.

The course provides a more in-depth treatment of analytical fluid mechanics (AFD) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) than is possible at the level of the first course. The first part of AFD is devoted to basic concepts, integral and differential equations of fluid motion, boundary conditions, exact solutions, inviscid approximations, and dimensional analysis and similarity.  The second part of AFD is concerned with the theory of incompressible laminar and turbulent viscous and inviscid flows with selected applications. Internal and external flows: laminar and turbulent viscous flow in circular and non-circular ducts; duct systems and losses; laminar and turbulent boundary layers; lift and drag; free shear flows; and potential flow theory.

In parallel, CFD lectures and laboratory exercises utilizing a recently developed hands-on CFD educational interface conducted for both internal and external flows.  The CFD educational interface utilizes industrial CFD code Fluent and is designed to teach students CFD methodology (modeling and numerical methods) and procedures through step-by-step interactive implementation automating the CFD process and mirroring actual engineering practice.  Predefined active options use hierarchical system facilitating use at introductory and intermediate levels, encouraging individual investigation, and transition to using industrial CFD code.

Assigned homework problems done independently and handed in on time reinforce classroom lectures and graded (100 points total). Additional comprehensive homework problems will be required for graduate students and accounted as extra credits for undergraduate students. Solutions to the homework problems placed on reserve in the IIHR Library after the due date. In addition, there will be 4 CFD take home projects (150 points), which are also done independently and handed in on time, and a CFD pre (0 points) and post (50 points) test. There will be two examinations, I (100 points) during the semester and II (200 points) the final exam at the end of the semester. The final grade determined by (I + II + homework + CFD take home project).