ME 62Fluid Mechanics II
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1968–69
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1964–65 to 1968–69; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Ideal fluids, Euler’s equations, integration along a streamline, continuity, stream function. Irrotational motion, source and sink potential, rectilinear vortex. Circulation, lift, Kutta-Joukowski theorem. Vortex motion, Helmholtz theorems, Biot-Savart law. Boundary layers in laminar flow, displacement and momentum thickness, momentum integral, boundary layer development. Introduction:to turbomachinery, dimensional analysis and momentum principles.
As printed in the 1968–69 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1964–65 to 1968–69, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1968–69 1 calendar
Ideal fluids, Euler’s equations, integration along a streamline, continuity, stream function. Irrotational motion, source and sink potential, rectilinear vortex. Circulation, lift, Kutta-Joukowski theorem. Vortex motion, Helmholtz theorems, Biot-Savart law. Boundary layers in laminar flow, displacement and momentum thickness, momentum integral, boundary layer development. Introduction:to turbomachinery, dimensional analysis and momentum principles.
1967–68 1 calendar
Titled Fluid Dynamics.
Ideal Fluids: Equations of motion of non-viscous fluid; sample solutions of two and three-dimensional problems; Fourier analysis; conformal mapping in two-dimensional flow; shortcomings of ideal fluid models. Real Fluids: viscosity, the Navier-Stokes equations, flows at low Reynolds number; laminar boundary layers; short introduction to turbulent flow.
3 lectures.
Not in the 1966–67 calendar.
1965–66 1 calendar
Titled Fluid Dynamics.
Euler's equations for a perfect fluid, some examples of irrotational flow in two dimensions, sourcés and sinks, flow around immersed objects, Rankine bodies, Kelvin’s and Helmholtz’ theorems on circulation and vorticity, Kutta-Joukowski theorem. Some three-dimensional problems, induced drag, virtual mass. Boundary layer mechanics: laminar and turbulent separation, generation of circulation. Turbulent velocity fluctuations, Reynolds stresses. Displacement and momentum thickness. Momentum integral relationship, approximate methods of predicting boundary layer growth.
3 lectures.
1964–65 1 calendar
Titled Fluid Dynamics.
Fundamental concepts of fluid flow: vorticity, circulation, stream function and velocity potential. Integral formulation of the governing laws of fluid dynamics. Combination of uniform flow with flows generated by singularities. Two and three dimensional ideal flow over simple bodies. Introduction to conformal mapping principles.
3 lectures, one term.
Prerequisite: GE 32, Math 44.