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I coordinate the sequence of fluid mechanics courses from a required undergraduate courses through graduate courses. I work with other faculty to coordinate the scheduling of these courses as well as their technical content, making modifications as needed to better accommodate our graduate student population and to make the technical electives more attractive to undergraduates. I established the laboratory component of the undergraduate course and continue to develop experiments for it.
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ME 317L Introduction to Fluid Mechanics is the required junior-level course taken by all ME students. In addition to three lecture hours, a one-hour laboratory component was added in 2001.
ME 428/528 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics (Previously ME 430) is an undergraduate technical elective and introductory graduate course. The fundamental principles of fluid mechanics are reviewed and extended to advanced topics which arise in mechanical engineering practice. Laboratory experience will be provided through measurement technique demonstrations and one or two packaged experiments. Several short design projects are assigned, such as selecting components for a piping network, designing a turbomachine laboratory experiment, or carrying out a flow system design which utilizes lubrication theory, potential flow or boundary layer analyses. Students will make design-oriented calculations of the basic fluid mechanics which are needed to select system components based on economic and performance constraints. Optimization of design with constraints will be introduced in these analyses.
ME 530 Theoretical Fluid Mechanics is the first fluids course taken by most graduate students. This is a rigorous introduction to fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on developing students' understanding of the basic equations for the various fluid/flow models from first principles. This is a prerequisite to all other graduate fluids courses.
ME 532 Gas Dynamics is an undergraduate technical elective and introductory graduate course with undergraduate fluid mechanics and thermodynamics as its only prerequisites. An undergraduate course number is being added.
ME 534 Boundary Layers The first half of ME 534 is standard viscous flow material, with the second half consisting of numerical methods, turbulence and transition modeling.
ME 634 Turbulence and Turbulent Boundary Layers is the most flexible of all the courses that I teach and has varied significantly over the 3 times I have taught it. While all variations included transition, Reynolds stress modeling, and experimental techniques, the rest of the classtime is reflective of the interests of the students in the class and on my current research.
| Course | Level | Semester |
| ME 301 Thermodynamics | Undergraduate | Spring 1995 Fall 1981 |
| ME 317 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics | Undergraduate | Spring 2004 Fall 2003 Spring 2002 Fall 2001 Spring 2001 Fall 2000 Fall 1994 Fall 1991 Spring 1991 Spring 1982 Fall 1981 |
| ME 318 Mechanical Engineering Measurements | Undergraduate | Fall 1982 |
| ME 363 Analysis of Mechanical Engineering Systems | Undergradute (Discontinued 1998) |
Spring 1995 Spring 1991 Fall 1990 Spring 1990 Fall 1989 Spring 1986 Spring 1985 Fall 1984 Fall 1983 |
| ME 428/528 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics (Formerly ME 430) |
Undergraduate Technical Elective/Graduate | Fall 2000 Fall 1998 Spring 1998 Spring 1997 Spring 1993 Spring 1986 Spring 1985 Spring 1984 Spring 1983 Spring 1982 |
| ME 530 Theoretical Fluid Mechanics | Graduate | Spring 1999 (ITV) Fall 1997 Fall 1996 Fall 1993 (ITV) Fall 1991 (ITV) Fall 1987 Fall 1986 Fall 1985 Fall 1984 Fall 1982 |
| ME 532 Gas Dynamics | Undergraduate Technical Elective/Graduate | Fall 2003 (ITV) Spring 2000 (ITV) |
| ME 534 Boundary Layers | Graduate | Spring 1999 (ITV) Spring 1994 (ITV) Spring 1992 Spring 1990 (ITV) Spring 1987 |
| ME 634 Turbulence and Turbulent Boundary Layers | Graduate | Fall 1992 Fall 1990 (ITV) Spring 1988 |
Ph.D.
Carrie Noren, in progress, optical diagnostics in chemical laser flows
Andy Gerhart, in progress, Optical Measurements in Large Scale Buoyant Plumes and Fires
Charles F. Wisniewski, 2003, Spatially Resolved Sub-Doppler Overtone Gain Measurements in a Small Scale Supersonic HF Laser
Timothy Clark, 1991, Spectral Self-Similarity of Homogeneous Anisotropic Turbulence
Siamack Shirazi, 1989, Evaluation of Algebraic and Half-Equation Turbulence Models for Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows Using a Parabolized Navier-Stokes Method
M.S. Thesis
Pat Chavez, in progress, Laser Wavefront Diagnostics of a Plane Mixing Layer
Rufus Yazzie, in progress, Prediction of Oscillatory Flow Excitation at the Leading Edge of a Modified NACA 0015 Airfoil
Victor Soria, in progress, Numerical Simulation of Flow over Deforming Airfoils
Daniella Fajardo, in progress, Prediction of Chemical Laser Mixing. (Co-Advisor with Professor Peter Vorobieff)
Amol Palekar, in progress, Prediction of Chemical Laser Mixing. (Co-Advisor with Professor Peter Vorobieff)
Chris Platero, 2003, Fractal Dimension Evolution in a Shear Layer Instability. (Co-Advisor with Professor Peter Vorobieff)
Kathy Meyer, 2003, Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) of High Speed Mixing Flows. (Co-Advisor with Professor Peter Vorobieff)
Peter Szyjka, 2003, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Data for a Plane Mixing Layer
Jacobo Sapayo, 1997, Study of the Development of Axixsymmetric and Helical Modes in Heated Air Jets using Fast Optical Tomography
Tim Luna, 1996, Linear Stochastic Estimation in a Heated Round Turbulent Jet
Charles Wisniewski, 1995, Calibration of Constant Current Anemometer Probes for Aircraft Based Atmospheric Turbulence Measurements
Hans Barsun, 1995, Estimating Optical Distortion Imposed on Light Passing Through Turbulent Shear Layers
Brian Staveley, 1994, Optical Investigation of the Turbulent Scales in a Round Jet
Steven Trujillo, 1994, Effects of Regularly Distributed Discrete Roughness on the Saltation Threshold in a Turbulent Boundary Layer
Kris Larson, 1993, Dynamical System Prediction of the Scalar Field in a Near-Wall Turbulent Flow
Nanette Founds, Quantitative Measurements of a Low Density Hypersonic Jet using Laser Induced Fluorescence (not completed)
David Ceman, 1991, Phase Doppler Technique: Factors Affecting Instrument Response and Novel Calibration System
Craig Woolhiser, 1991, A Chlorine Utilization Study for Uniform-Droplet Singlet Delta Oxygen Generators
Timothy Clark, 1988, Optical Propagation Through Computational Turbulence Using a Parabolized Helmholtz Equation
M.S. Project
Rita Rex Smith, 1989, Prediction of Optical Phase Error Induced by a Turbulent Supersonic Mixing Layer
Michael Baxter, 1988, Predicting the Optical Quality of a Supersonic Shear Layer
Hardy Schreiber, 1988, Packed bed Condenser Methodology: Model Development and Enhancement of Ejector Pumping Analysis
Roberto Moya, 1988, Heat Transfer from a Rotating Disk under Turbulent Conditions
Kyle Ross, 1986, LDV calibration and data acquisition
Hossein Sabbagh, 1985, flow visualization in rotating channel
W.-Y. Tang, 1985, heat transfer between rotating disks
Siamack Shirazi, 1983, turbulence model for rotating disks
Undergraduate Student Supervision
Mark Olguin, Spring 1998, Adaptive Control of Correction for Optical Degradation by Turbulence
Vernon Lawhorn, Spring and Fall 1998, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Victor Soria, Spring-Fall 1998, Prediction of Flow Over Deformable Airfoils
Tyler Wesley, Spring-Fall 1998, Prediction of Flow Over Deformable Airfoils
Jesse Vigil, Spring 1999, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Pat Chavez, Spring-Fall 1999 Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Aaron Stone, Summer-Fall 1999 Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Zach Smith, Summer 1999-Spring 2000, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Daniel Temer, Fall 1999-Spring 2000,Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Chris Box, Spring 2001-Spring 2002, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Roland Ortega, Spring 2001, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Craig Hildreth, Spring 2001-Spring 2002, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Daniel Georgiev, Summer 2000-Spring 2002, PIV Studies in Soap Film Flow (co-advisor with Peter Vorobieff)
Jesse Vigil, Fall 2000-Fall 2002, PIV Studies in Soap Film Flow, (co-advisor with Peter Vorobieff)
High School Student Supervision
Through NASA PURSUE
Ben Colahan, Summer 2001, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Savanna Garcia, Summer 2000, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Jason Willis, Summer 1999, Optical Diagnostics for Wind Tunnel Shear Layer
Through NASA Sharp Plus
Ben Deaton, Summer 2003, Grid Turbulence in a Two Dimensional Soap Film, (co-advisor with Peter Vorobieff)
David Huie, Summer 2002, PIV Studies in Soap Film Flow, (co-advisor with Peter Vorobieff)
Fernando Castilo, Summer 2001, PIV Studies in Water Tow Tank, (co-advisor with Peter Vorobieff)
Jasmine Sangalang, Summer 2000, PIV Studies in Soap Film Flow, (co-advisor with Peter Vorobieff)
Ray Mendoza, Summer 1999, Piping Network for Fluids Lab
High School Internship