Teaching
Graduate Courses
Examines numerical discretization of the inviscid compressible equations of fluid dynamics; finite-difference and finite-volume methods; time integration, iterative methods, 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
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
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to fluid mechanics; dimensional analysis; effects of gravity on pressure; kinematics; conservation of mass, momentum and energy; control-volume method; vorticity and viscosity; viscous effects;
Navier-Stokes solutions; boundary layers.
Offered: Autumn
UW STEM - Bridge Program
Summer 2010