Fundamentals of fluid mechanics: governing equations, ideal fluid flows, incompressible viscous fluid flows, compressible flows.

Office hours: Monday, 2pm to 4pm, and Wednesday, 2pm to 4pm or by appointment. Appointment for a visit during the regular office hours is also recommended.

Grading and Course Policy

The course will be graded on an absolute scale using percentage scores. A 100% score implies that the student has learned all it was possible to learn in the course. 0% indicates no learning. Scores are converted to grades according to the table below.

The instructor hopes that will be no necessity to quantify scores lower than the ones presented in the table. There will be one final exam in the course, and one literature review project. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will be dealt with in accordance with the UNM policy on academic dishonesty. Whining shall be severely punished, with the punishment meted out at the discretion of the instructor.

Homework will be assigned on a monthly basis. The respective contributions to the final score are:

The exam is open-note and open-book. Make-up exam - by appointment and only with extenuating circumstances. Students requiring special accommodations should contact the instructor before the exam. Partial credit will be given for incomplete problems showing the right steps toward the solution. The literature review project will be assigned before the seventh week of the semester, with the due date not earlier than one month after the date of the assignment. Attendance will have no influence on the grade.

The class will meet on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 1:00pm in room ME214. Class may be rescheduled only well in advance and by the consensus of the participants (including the instructor). The final exam will be two hours long.

 The instructor will appreciate feedback from students on possible improvements to the course content. If there are subjects and/or problems of specific interest, discussion of these can be included. Presently, the following outline is expected:

Governing Equations:
1. Basic conservation equations
2. Goverining equations for newtonian fluids
3. Vorticity
4. Special forms of conservation equations
Ideal fluid flows (incompressible):
5. Complex variable theory and fluid mechanics
6. Potential flow theory in 2D
7. Potential flows in 3D
8. Idealized treatment of surface-wave problems
Viscous fluid flows (incompressible):
9. Exact solutions for viscous flows
10. Creeping flow
11. Boundary layers
12. Convective flows
Compressible fluid flows (mostly inviscid):
13. Shock waves
14. One-dimensional compressible flows
15. Compressible flow in 3D

Disclaimers. Do not eat. Do no use as a flotation device. Void where prohibited by law. This curriculum may have been tested on invertebrate and vertebrate organisms, including graduate students.