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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 email | Duties | Office hours |
|---|---|---|
| Timur Kent Dogan | Head TA, class webpage, exams, grading | 12:30 - 1:20 MWF (223-9 SHL) |
| Gurjap Singh | HW Coordinator (M) | 12:30 - 1:20 M (G130 SC) |
| Conrad Tebbe | HW (W) | 12:30 - 1:20 T (G130 SC) |
| Christopher Psihogios | HW (F) | 12:30 - 1:20 Th (G130 SC) |
| Mehdi Esmaeilpour | EFD Coordinator | |
| Coale Copper | EFD | 2:30 - 3:20 M (3231 SC) |
| John Shepard | EFD | 2:30 - 3:20 W (3231 SC) |
| Danielle Culver | EFD | 2:30 - 3:20 F (3231 SC) |
| Maysam Mousaviraad | Instructor Assistant. CFD Lecture | By appointment |
| Dong-Hwan Kim | CFD Coordinator | 2:30 - 3:20 M T Th (3231 SC) |
| Andrew Opyd | CFD | 2:30 - 3:20 W F (3231 SC) |
| Hyunse Yoon | Instructor Assistant, Class overall and lecture | By 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 Property | TM for Pipe Flow | TM 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 UA | Hands-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 | ||||
| FM Lecture | ||||
| Lab Report Instructions | ||||
| EFD | EFD Lecture: EFD_and_UA | |||
| EFD Lab 1 | EFD Lab 2 | EFD Lab 3 | ||
Lab1_Exercise_Notes (DOC file) Data: | Lab2_Exercise_Notes (DOC file) Lab_2_Data_Reduction Sheet (smooth) Lab_2_Data_Reduction_Sheet (FlowCoach) Data: | 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) Supplementary documents
Data: | ||
| UA (EFD) | References: EFD UA Report, EFD UA Summary, EFD UA Example | |||
| CFD | ||||
CFD Lecture: Introduction to CFD | ||||
| CFD Prelab 1 | CFD Lab 1 | CFD Prelab 2 | CFD Lab 2 | |
CFD Prelab1 Setup Summary: (PDF, DOC)
CFD Prelab1 Questions: (PDF, DOC)
CFD Prelab1 Manual: (PDF, DOC) AFD data: |
CFD Lab1 Setup Summary: (PDF, DOC)
Sample EFD data 2013: |
CFD Prelab2 Questions: (PDF, DOC)
Air foil geometry : (Download)
CFD Prelab2 Manual: (PDF, DOC) Sample EFD data: |
Air foil geometry : (Download)
Sample EFD data: | |
| UA (CFD) | ||||