Graduate Fluids Curriculum

Autumn
Winter
Spring
AA 501
(even years)
AA 504
(even years)
AA 503
(required)
AA 525
(even years)
AA 524
(odd years)
AA 508
(odd years)
ME 543
(even years)

AA 501: Physical Gasdynamics I

Equilibrium kinetic theory; chemical thermodynamics; thermodynamic properties derived from quantum statistical mechanics; reacting gas mixtures; applications to real gas flows and gas dynamics.
materials; and examples/solutions for solid/fluid materials.
Offered: Autumn (even years)
Instructor: TBA

AA 503: Continuum Mechanics

Reviews concepts of motion, stress, energy for a general continuum; conservation of mass, momentum, and energy; and the second law; constitutive equations for linear/nonlinear elastic, viscous/inviscid fluids, and general
materials; and examples/solutions for solid/fluid materials.
Offered: Autumn (jointly with ME 503)
Instructor: D. Dabiri, K, Holsapple, E. Fried (ME)

AA 504: Compressible Fluid Mechanics

Reviews the fundamentals with application to external and internal flows; supersonic flow, 1D and Quasi-1D, steady and unsteady flow, oblique shocks and expansion waves, linearized flow, 2D flow, method of characteristics; and transonic and hypersonic flow.
Offered: Spring
Instructor: M. Kurosaka

AA 506: Vortex Dominated Flows

Examines the vorticity equation, baroclinic torque, solenoidality, Biot-Savart's formula, diffusion of vorticity, Burger vortex, system of vortices, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, effects of density, shear and surface tension on instability, swirling flows, and other special topics.
Offered: Spring (even years)
Instructor: M. Kurosaka, D. Dabiri

AA 507: Fluid Mechanics

Covers inviscid and viscous imcompressible flows, exact solutions of laminar flows, creeping flows, boundary layers, free-shear flows, vorticity equation, and introduction to vortex dynamics.
Offered: Winter (odd years)
Instructor: TBA

AA 508: Turbulence

The phenomena of turbulence; transition prediction; Reynolds stresses; turbulent boundary-layer equations. Approximate methods for turbulent boundary layers. Prerequisite: A A 507 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring (odd years)
Instructor: TBA

AA 524: Aeroacoustics

Reviews fundamental concepts of acoustics which include sound measurements, reflection, resonance, transmission, radiation, scattering, diffraction, ray acoustics, wave guide, turbo-machinery noise, sound suppression, jet noise, and airframe noise and acoustic problems in rockets and other propulsion systems.
Offered: Autumn (odd years)
Instructor: M. Kurosaka

AA 525: Special Topics in Advanced Airbreathing Engines

Reviews the fundamental concepts of advanced airbreathing engines including advanced gas turbines, ramjets, scramjets and variants, detonations engines, flow with chemical energy release, shock dynamics, Chapman-Jouguet, ZND model, and multi-cellular and spinning detonation.
Offered: Winter (even years)
Instructor: TBA

AA 543: Computational Fluid Dynamics

Examines numerical discretization of the inviscid compressible equations of fluid dynamics; finite-difference and finite-volume methods; time integration, iterative methods, and explicit and implicit algorithms; consistency, stability, error analysis, and properties of numerical schemes, grid generation; and applications to the numerical solution of model equations and the 2D Euler equations.
Offered: Winter
Instructor: A. Ferrante

AA 544: Turbulence Modeling and Simulation

Examines numerical discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation; projection method, introduction to turbulence; Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations; algebraic, one-equation, and two-equation turbulence models; large-eddy simulation; direct numerical simulation; and applications to the numerical solution of laminar and turbulent flows in simple geometries.
Offered: Spring
Instructor: A. Ferrante

ME 543: Fluid Turbulence

Methods of characterizing fluid turbulence; probability concepts; spatial and temporal velocity correlations; spectral energy transfer; turbulent diffusion; isotropic turbulence and Kolmogoroff' s hypothesis; Taylor' s hypothesis; hot-wire measurement techniques. Prerequisite: 3 credits of graduate level fluid mechanics or permission of instructor.
Offered: Winter (even years)
Instructor: TBA