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May 09, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book
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PHY 327 - Introduction to Fluid Mechanics3 Credits
Offered Fall and Spring
Fluid dynamics is important in describing stellar, planetary dynamics (mantle, oceans and atmosphere), and multiple engineering applications. The course covers the following: Dissipationless fluids: conservation of mass, Euler’s equation, equation of continuity, conservation of energy, entropy, Bernoulli’s equation, adiabatic, isothermal fluids, thermal and mechanical equilibrium, vorticity, Helmholtz theorems, irrotational flow; Viscous fluids: viscosity, strain rate, stress, Navier-Stokes equation; waves, instability in fluids, turbulent flow, boundary layer flow, convection; compressible flow, sound waves; aerofoils, Kutta-Joukowski theorem.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): PHY 221 - Physics III
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