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Class location: 2133 SC

Time and days: 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Tuesday/Thursday

Instructor: Professor Frederick Stern

Office: 223C Stanley Hydraulics Lab

Phone: (319) 335-5215

Email: frederick-stern@uiowa.edu

Office hours: 10:45 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. Tuesday/Thursday, or by appointment

Other classes: 57:020 (ENGR:2510), ME:7268, ME:5160:0001

Teaching Assistant

Name: Christian Milano

Email: christian-milano@uiowa.edu

Duties: HW questions and grading

TA office hours: After class or by appointment 

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Lecture Notes

Chapter 1 & 2 - Preliminary Concepts & Fundamental Equations of Compressible Viscous Flow

Chapter 3 - Solutions of the Newtonian Viscous-Flows equations

Chapter 4 - Laminar Boundary Layers

Chapter 5 - The Stability of Laminar Flows

Chapter 5 - Overview Introduction Stability of Laminar Flows

  1. Introduction
    1. Panton
    2. Kundu et al. I, Kundu et al. II
    3. White
  2. Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
    1. Parallel Flow Different Velocity: Inviscid Layer Instability (Panton)
    2. Parallel Flow Different Velocity and Density
      1. White
      2. Kundu et al.
  3. Principle of Exchange of Stabilities: Cellular Convection/Secondary Flow
    1. Taylor Instability
      1. Steady Flow Between Concentric Rotating Cylinders
      2. Rayleigh inviscid criterion
      3. Taylor vortices
    2. Gortler Instability
    3. Bernard Instability
  4. Orr-Sommerfield Equation
  5. Inviscid & Viscous Instability Parallel Flows
  6. Turbulent Transition Modeling

 

 

Chapter 6 - Incompressible Turbulent Instantaneous and Mean Flow

Chapter 6 - Incompressible Turbulent Flow