ME8102 (AE8102) Advanced Fluid Mechanics (F14)

RYERSON UNIVERSITY
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
COURSE OUTLINE

ME 8102 (AE 8102)

ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS

Instructor:

Dr. Jun Cao

Office: EPH316
Phone: (416) 979-5244 ext. 7694
Email: jcao@ryerson.ca

Recommended Texts:

Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids (4th Ed)

I. G. Currie
CRC Press, 2012
Viscous Fluid Flow (3rd Ed)
F. M. White
McGraw Hill, 2006
Transport Phenomena (2nd Ed)
R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart, E. N. Lightfoot
John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Course Organization:

3 one-hour lectures per week for 13 weeks

Course Contents:
The course covers the following four main topics:
1.

Calculus review:
Vectors;
Tensors;
Differential operators.

2.

Governing equations:
Conservation of mass, momentum, and energy;
Lagrangian vs. Eularian approaches;
Different flow models in vector and tensor forms;
Flow model selection.

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ME8102 (AE8102) Advanced Fluid Mechanics (F14)

3.

Ideal fluid flows:

Classical hydrodynamics (potential, stream function);
Complex potential, complex velocity, solutions of elementary flows;
Conformal transformations, application.

4.

Viscous fluid flows:

Exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for the Couette and Poiseuille
flows;
Creeping flows;
Analytic solutions of laminar boundary layer equations.

Course Evaluation:

Note:

Assignments:
Literature reading and presentation:
Quiz (3 hours):
Final Exam (3 hours):

30%
20%
10%
40%

Total:

100%

(three assignments, 10% each)

1) Students are required to obtain and maintain their access to the Ryerson
E-Mail and web-based Blackboard systems for timely communications between
the instructor and the students.
2) There is one quiz that corresponds to the materials of Topic 1; three assignments
correspond to Topics 2, 3, and 4, respectively.
3) Only lecture notes, reading notes, and assignments are allowed in the quiz and
final exam (no printing materials or notes copied from each other are permitted).

Faculty Course Survey:

The students will be required to complete this survey during the weeks of 10, 11 or 12.

Prepared by:

Date:

July 30, 2014

Date:

August 25, 2014

Dr. J. Cao

Approved by:
Dr. A. Ghasempoor