Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Fluid Mechanics Syllabus
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering
MANE-6960-01 - Fluid Mechanics
Fall Semester 2015
Course Syllabus
Course Information
Fluid Mechanics
RPI Fall 2015
Lecture
MANE 6960
3 cr
M, Th
Section 01
12:00AM-1:20PM
LOW 4034
Prerequisites or Other Requirements:
Pre-requisites: Undergraduate multivariate calculus and undergraduate fluid mechanics. Instructor
Professor Zvi Rusak
Office Location: JEC 4010
Office Hours: M 4:00PM-5:00PM
Th 4:00PM-5:00PM
Teaching Assistant(s)
Name
Office
rusakz@rpi.edu
(518) 276-3036
Office Hours
Email
Address
NA
Course Text(s)
R.L. Panton, Incompressible Flow, Fourth edition, Wiley (2013).
Reference Books
G.K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University.
F.M. White, Viscous Fluid Flow, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006.
VanDyke, M. An Album of Fluid Motion, Parabolic press
Course Goals / Objectives
A thorough understanding of the basic fundamentals of fluid mechanics of incompressible flows. Knowledge of the solution of fundamental problems in fluid mechanics and the underlying physical interpretation. Tools to solve simple problems in fluid mechanics. Some knowledge of turbulence and turbulent flows.
Course Content
Topics: Continuum hypothesis; Perfect gas and departures from perfect gas; Vector and Tenors; Conservation laws for a continuum: mass, momentum and energy;
Constitutive theory for fluids; Viscosity and molecular transport; Compressible Navier
Stokes equations; Kinematics of the flow field: vorticity, streamlines; Incompressible
Navier Stokes equations and their applications: Poiseuille flow, low Reynolds number flows, flows at high Reynolds number, boundary layers, external flows; Turbulence; introduction to the theory of turbulence; Introduction to the numerical solution of problems in fluid mechanics.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Students should understand basic conservation laws of Fluid Mechanics.
2. Students should
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering
MANE-6960-01 - Fluid Mechanics
Fall Semester 2015
Course Syllabus
Course Information
Fluid Mechanics
RPI Fall 2015
Lecture
MANE 6960
3 cr
M, Th
Section 01
12:00AM-1:20PM
LOW 4034
Prerequisites or Other Requirements:
Pre-requisites: Undergraduate multivariate calculus and undergraduate fluid mechanics. Instructor
Professor Zvi Rusak
Office Location: JEC 4010
Office Hours: M 4:00PM-5:00PM
Th 4:00PM-5:00PM
Teaching Assistant(s)
Name
Office
rusakz@rpi.edu
(518) 276-3036
Office Hours
Address
NA
Course Text(s)
R.L. Panton, Incompressible Flow, Fourth edition, Wiley (2013).
Reference Books
G.K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University.
F.M. White, Viscous Fluid Flow, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006.
VanDyke, M. An Album of Fluid Motion, Parabolic press
Course Goals / Objectives
A thorough understanding of the basic fundamentals of fluid mechanics of incompressible flows. Knowledge of the solution of fundamental problems in fluid mechanics and the underlying physical interpretation. Tools to solve simple problems in fluid mechanics. Some knowledge of turbulence and turbulent flows.
Course Content
Topics: Continuum hypothesis; Perfect gas and departures from perfect gas; Vector and Tenors; Conservation laws for a continuum: mass, momentum and energy;
Constitutive theory for fluids; Viscosity and molecular transport; Compressible Navier
Stokes equations; Kinematics of the flow field: vorticity, streamlines; Incompressible
Navier Stokes equations and their applications: Poiseuille flow, low Reynolds number flows, flows at high Reynolds number, boundary layers, external flows; Turbulence; introduction to the theory of turbulence; Introduction to the numerical solution of problems in fluid mechanics.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Students should understand basic conservation laws of Fluid Mechanics.
2. Students should