Fluid dynamics II

Spring 2006

Professor Stephen Childress.

Monday, 1:25-3:15pm in WWH TBA.

 Office Hours: TBA.

This course is a continuation of G63.2770 Fluid Dynamics I, but can be taken separately provided some review reading is done in the first two weeks. 

Suggested review reading: Batchelor: 1-6, 71-77, 131-152; Milne-Thomson: 1-7, 65-77; Landau\& Lifshitz: 1-21.

Materials and content

• Books
• Course notes on compressible flow. Get pdf File
  
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• Lecture 1: Review of basic equations. The mechanical energy equation.
• Lecture 2: Thermodynamics of gases and the energy equation. 
• Lecture 3: Acoustics; wave equations, linear and nonlinear.
• Lecture 4: Homentropic flow I.
• Lecture 5:  Linearized supersonic flow. Shock waves.
• Lecture 6:  Shock waves continued; the Riemann problem.
• Lecture 7:  Steady supersonic flow in 2D. Oblique shocks.
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  • Homework 1, due February 6: Get pdf file.
  • Homework 2, due February 13: Get pdf file.
  • Homework 3, due February 27: Get pdf file.
  • Homework 4, due March 6: Get pdf file.