Course Descriptions
Graduate Level
MAE 645 Fluid Dynamics Measurements
Measurement of pressure, density, and velocity in low- and
high-speed flows.Hot wire anemometry and laser Doppler anemometry. Particle image velocimetry.Flow visualizations and image analysis.
Digital data acquisition and timeseries analysis. Uncertainty estimation. Lecture and
laboratory sessions.
MAE/BEN 648 BiofluidDynamics
Principles of momentum transfer in
bioengineering systems. Flight and swimming in nature including flagellar
propulsion. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid phenomena, including
low-Reynolds-number flow, unsteady and separated flows. Respiratory
and blood circulatory flows. Flow past bifurcations. Mass and heat
transfer. Analytical modeling and measurement technique in biofluid transport processes Applications
to both biological and engineering systems.
MAE 643 Fluid Dynamics
Kinematics and dynamics of flows. Conservation of
mass, momentum, and energy.Navier-Stokes equations. Dimensionless
parameters and regimes of flow. Potentialflow
applications.
AEE/MEE 644 Applied Fluid Dynamics
Fundamental flow phenomena encountered in practical engineering
situations.Topics may include: flow separation, turbulent mixing, bluff-body
aerodynamics,three-dimensional flow, flow control,
high-lift devices, cavitation, fanstall, flow-structure interaction. Prereq:
MEE/AEE 643.
AEE 642 Advanced Aerodynamics
(NLA)