ME6260 (058:260) Viscous Flow
College of Engineering, The University of Iowa

Course Schedule (Spring 2024)

 

 

Date                Assignments                            Class Topic

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Week 01/15     Chapter 1&2 Preliminary Concepts & Fundamental Equations of Compressible Viscous Flow                                               

(1)   Historical Outline and Examples of Viscous Flow

                        1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5,1.17,1.24         (2) Fluid properties

                        2.1,2.7,2.12,2.14,2.15,2.16     (3) Fundamental Equations of Compressible

                        Due 03/22                                    Viscous Flow

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Week 01/22                                                     Continued

                                                                        (4) Boundary Conditions for Viscous Flow    

                                                                              Problems: Dr Zhaoyuan Wang

                                                                        (5) Vorticity Considerations for Incompressible      

                  Viscous Flow

3

Week 01/29                                                     (6.1) Reference Frames and Coordinate Systems

(6.2) Solution NS for 6DoF Solid Body Motions:   

Dr. Zhaoyuan Wang

(6.3) Curvilinear Coordinate Systems

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Week 02/05     Chapter 3 Solutions of the Newtonian Viscous-Flow            Equations

                        3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.14, 3.17, 3.37  Topics (1)-(4) Couette/Poiseuille/Gravity and Free

                        Due 03/22                               Surface

                                                                        Topic (5) Unsteady

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Week 02/12                                                     Topic (5) Unsteady (Continued)

                                                                        Topic (6) Suction and Injection

                                                                        Topic (7) Wind-Driven

 

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Week 02/19                                                     Topic (8) Similarity

                                                                       

 

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Week 02/26                                                     Topic (8) Similarity (Continued)

                                                                        Topic (9) Stokes

 

 

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Week 03/04                                                     Topic (9) Stokes (Continued)

                                                                        Project Discussion

 

Week 03/11     Spring Break

 

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Week 03/18                                                     Midterm Exam Chapter 3 Topics 1-4 (75 points)

                                                                                       Exam Chapter 3 Topics 5-9 (75 points)

 

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Week 03/25                                                     Chapter 4 Laminar Boundary Layers

                        4.10, 4.11, 4.17, 4.18, 4.37     Topics (1)-(2) Background/Concepts and Theory

                        4.40, 4.41

                        Due 04/08

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Week 04/01                                                     Continued

 

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Week 04/08                                                     Chapter 5 The Stability of Laminar Flows

                                                                        Topic (1) Background/Concepts and Theory

                                                                        Topic (2) Exchange of Stabilities

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Week 04/15                                                     Topic (3) Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

                                                                        Topics (4)–(6) Orr-Sommerfeld Equation and Instability Parallel Flows

 

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Week 04/22                                                     Topic (7) Turbulent Transition and Transition Modeling

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Week 04/29                                                     Chapter 6 Incompressible Instantaneous and Mean Turbulent Flow

                                                                        Turbulence Modeling

05/03 Close of Classes

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­­­­­­­­­                                                                        Project Final Presentations

                                                                        Exam Chapter 4 Topic 2 (75 points)

Exam Chapter 4 Topic 3 (75 points)

Exam Chapter 5 (100 points)