ASE 320 - Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
ERes: Homework solutions and class-restricted information (password protected)
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WRW 201B |
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Office Hours: |
M-F: 11-11:45, and by appointment |
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471-3110 |
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Text: |
Fluid Mechanics (4th Edition), Frank M. White |
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Important dates
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Tuesday, Sep 3 |
Last day to add/drop classes in |
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Tuesday, Oct 3 |
Test 1, 75 minutes, in class (correction to first posting) |
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Tuesday, Nov 21 |
Test 2, 75 minutes, in class (correction to first posting) |
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Saturday, Dec 14 |
Final Exam ( |
Grading
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Overall class performance |
5% |
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Homework |
15% |
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Two mid semester tests |
40% (Higher score: 25%, Lower: 15%) |
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Final Exam |
40% |
A small percentage of your overall grade is based on class performance to motivate
you to help those who have problems, and to gently encourage anyone who is
goofing off to stay on top of things. This is basically some teamwork training.
In real life a much bigger proportion of your success will depend on everyone
in the team working well. The team is often large and you rarely (never?) have total control
over the team members.
2000-2002 Catalog Data
Fundamental concepts, fluid statics; integral and
differential analysis; detailed analysis of inviscid, incompressible flows;
aerodynamics of airfoils and wings. Prerequisite: Mathematics 427L with
a grade of at least C and credit or registration for Aerospace
Engineering 120K. (This requirement has been relaxed
this semester because ASE 120K is full.)
Objectives and Outcomes
There are many, many textbooks on Fluid Mechanics – every teacher tends to want one that reflects his or her own point of view. You may want to search the library for one that you like if you want a different point of view from the text. There are also several (but fewer) texts on Aerodynamics, which reflect our aerospace bias. Here are a couple of suggestions.
- Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (5th Edition), Robert W. Fox, Alan T. McDonald, Wiley, 1998. Very systematic approach to solving problems. My biggest criticism of this approach is that all “problems” are really presented as “exercises”, where the solution is presented as if one knew exactly where to start. For real problems this is rarely, if ever, true.
- Fundamentals of Aerodynamics (3rd Edition) J. D. Anderson, Jr., McGraw Hill, 1991. Nice historical perspective added.
- Irrotational Flow by Prof. Marco Colombini, University of Genoa. This is a beautiful web presentation on the theory of plane irrotational flows that explains and illustrates successively basic irrotational flows (uniform stream, doublet, vortex) and builds them up into more complex flows (flow over a cylinder) and culminates with flow over airfoils. It shows the error in common simplified "explanations" of airfoil lift that leave you with the wrong physical impression of how lift is created. You can also see the presentation in the original Italian or in German.
