AEP 4340 - Fluid and Continuum Mechanics

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: AEP 3330 and AEP 3550 or equivalent.

L. Wickham.

Intro to elasticity (including stress and strain tensors and their linear relations for isotropic materials), intro to plastic deformation with a focus on dislocations, fluid properties and some hydrostatics, conservation laws with applications (including pipes), dimensional analysis, vorticity, ideal flow (including forms of Bernoulli equations, potential flow, and conformal mapping), flow past objects (including boundary layers, drag, lift, and aerofoils), instabilities, an introduction to turbulence, compressible flow (including choking and shock waves).