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Quick information

Class location: 100 PH
Time and days: 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. MWF
Instructor: Professor Frederick Stern
Office: 223C Stanley Hydraulics Lab
Phone:  33 5-5215
Email:  frederick-stern@uiowa.edu
Office hours: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. MWF (or by appointment)

The teaching module materials on this website are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0126589.

Teaching Assistants

Name and emailDutiesOffice hours
Timur Kent DoganHead TA, class webpage, exams, grading

12:30 - 1:20 MWF (223-9 SHL)

Gurjap SinghHW Coordinator (M)12:30 - 1:20 M (G130 SC)
Conrad TebbeHW (W)

12:30 - 1:20 T (G130 SC)
12:30 - 1:20 W (G130 SC)

Christopher PsihogiosHW (F)

12:30 - 1:20 Th (G130 SC)
2:30 - 3:20 F (G130 SC)

Mehdi EsmaeilpourEFD Coordinator 
Coale CopperEFD2:30 - 3:20 M (3231 SC)
John ShepardEFD2:30 - 3:20 W (3231 SC)
Danielle CulverEFD2:30 - 3:20 F (3231 SC)
Maysam MousaviraadInstructor Assistant. CFD LectureBy appointment
Dong-Hwan KimCFD Coordinator2:30 - 3:20 M T Th (3231 SC)
Andrew OpydCFD2:30 - 3:20 W F (3231 SC)
Hyunse YoonInstructor Assistant, Class overall and lectureBy appointment

Note: EFD and CFD Lab TA's office hours available ONLY from one week before that lab starts to the week when the lab report is due.

ISTUE Teaching Modules for Introductory Level Fluid Mechanics

Teaching Modules TM for Fluid PropertyTM for Pipe FlowTM for Airfoil Flow
Overall Purpose Hands-on student experience with table-top facility and simple MS for fluid property measurement, including comparison manufacturer values and rigorous implementation standard EFD UAHands-on student experience with complementary EFD, CFD, and UA for Introductory Pipe Flow, including friction factor and mean velocity measurements and comparisons benchmark data, laminar and turbulent flow CFD simulations, modeling and numerical methods and verification studies,  and validation  using AFD and EFD.Hands-on student experience with complementary EFD, CFD, and UA for Introductory Airfoil Flow, including lift and drag, surface pressure, and mean and turbulent wake velocity profile measurements and comparisons benchmark data, inviscid and turbulent flow simulations, , modeling and numerical methods and verification studies ,  and validation  using AFD and EFD.
Educational Materials 
FM and EFD lecture; lab report instructions; pre lab questions, and EFD exercise notes.
FM, EFD and CFD lectures; lab report instructions; pre lab questions, and EFD and CFD exercise notes.FM, EFD and CFD lectures; lab report instructions; pre lab questions, and EFD and CFD exercise notes.
ISTUE ASEE Papers

Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3

FM Lecture

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

Lab Report Instructions

EFD Report Instructions (PDF, DOC)

EFD

EFD Lecture: EFD_and_UA

EFD Lab Safety Guides: (PDF, DOC)

 EFD Lab 1EFD Lab 2EFD Lab 3
 

Prelab1 Questions

Lab1 Lecture

Lab1_Exercise_Notes (DOC file)

Lab1_Data Reduction Sheet

EFDlab1-Template.doc

Lab1_Concepts

Data:

Pre lab2 Questions

Lab2 Lecture

Lab2_Exercise_Notes (DOC file)

Lab_2_Data_Reduction Sheet (smooth)
Lab_2_Data_Reduction_Sheet (rough)                                        

Lab_2_Data_Reduction_Sheet (FlowCoach)

EFDlab2-Template.doc

Lab2_Concepts

Data:

Pre lab3 Questions

Lab3 Lecture

Lab3 Exercise Notes

Lab3 Data Reduction Sheet (Lift and drag)

Lab3 Data Reduction Sheet (FlowCoach-0deg.)

Lab3 Data Reduction Sheet (FlowCoach-16deg.)

Lab3 Tecplot Macro File (FlowCoach)

Lab3 Tecplot Data File (FlowCoach-Clark-Y geometry)

EFDlab3-Template.doc

Lab3_Concepts

Supplementary documents

  1. Clark-Y FlowCoach data postprocess instructions
  2. Reference speed for Re
  3. Lab3 Exercise Notes, Appendix C

Data:

UA (EFD)

References: EFD UA Report, EFD UA Summary, EFD UA Example

CFD

CFD Report Instructions (PDF, DOC)

CFD LectureIntroduction to CFD 

CFD Prelab 1CFD Lab 1CFD Prelab 2CFD Lab 2

Lab1_Concepts

CFD Pre-lab1 Lecture

 

CFD Prelab1 Setup Summary: (PDF, DOC)

 

CFD Prelab1 Questions: (PDF, DOC)

 

CFD Prelab1 Manual: (PDF, DOC)

AFD data:

axialvelocityAFD-laminar-pipe.xy

normalized-velocity-AFD-laminar-pipe.xy

CFD Lab1 Lecture

 

CFD Lab1 Setup Summary: (PDF, DOC)


CFD Lab1 Manual: (PDF, DOC)

 

CFD Lab1 Report Template.doc 

Sample EFD data 2013:

axialvelocityEFD-turbulent-pipe.xy

pressure-EFD-turbulent-pipe.xy

Lab2_Concepts

CFD Pre-lab2 Lecture

 

CFD Prelab2 Questions: (PDF, DOC)

 

Air foil geometry : (Download)

 

CFD Prelab2 Manual: (PDF, DOC)

Sample EFD data:

Pressure-coef-attack0.xy

Pressure-coef-attack06.xy

Pressure-coef-attack13.xy

Pressure-coef-attack16.xy

Lift-and-Drag-Benchmark-Data

CFD Lab2 Concepts

 

Air foil geometry : (Download)

 

CFD Lab2 Manual: (PDF, DOC)

CFD Lab2 Report Template.doc 

Sample EFD data:

Pressure-coef-attack0.xy

Pressure-coef-attack06.xy

Pressure-coef-attack13.xy

Pressure-coef-attack16.xy

Lift-and-Drag-Benchmark-Data

UA (CFD)