Course Information
Course title
Semester
Department
Instructor
FUNDAMENTAL OF FLUID DYNAMICS
102-2
Institute of Applied Mechanics
翁宗賢
Administrative
Curriculum Number
543M6110
Teaching Curriculum
Number
AM7097
Class
Credits
應 109
3
Full/Half Yr.
Half Yr.
Required/Elective
Required
Time
Remarks
Mon.2 Wed.34
The upper limit of the number of students: 60
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Table of Core
Capabilities and
Curriculum Planning
A、B、D、F
Course Syllabus
Course contents:
(1) Introduction and basic concepts
(2) Vector and tensor analysis, application to fluid mechanics
(3) Kinematics of fluid motion
(4) Differential balances in fluid mechanics
(5) Integral balances in fluid mechanics
(6) Inviscid flows
Course Description
(7) Viscous laminar flows
(8) Laminar-turbulent transition
(9) Turbulent flows
(9) Boundary layer theory
The contents of the course are similar to those of the fluid
mechanics courses for the first year graduate students of most
universities throughout the world.
The course aims to provide students a solid background of fluid
Course Objective
mechanics required for related research works.
The students who take this course for credits should have
Course Requirement
certain knowledges on undergraduate fluid mechanics, vector
calculus, and differential equations.
Office Hours
(1) Herbert Oertel, ed., Prandtl’s Essentials of Fluid Mechanics,
2nd Ed., Springer-Verlag, 2004
(2) I. G. Currie, Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids,
McGraw-Hill, 1974
(3) Chia-Shun Yih, Fluid Mechanics, West River Press, 1977
(4) Frank M. White, Viscous Fluid Flow, 3rd Ed.,
References
McGraw-Hill, 2006
(5) H. Schlichting and K. Gersten, Boundary Layer Theory, 8th
Ed., Springer, 2000
(6) Merle C. Potter and David C. Wiggert, Mechanics of Fluids,
3rd Ed., Brooks/Cole, 2002
(7) Frank M. White, Fluid Mechanics, 5th Ed., McGraw-Hill,
2003
Designated reading
Meinhard T. Schobeiri, Fluid Mechanics for Engineers, a
Graduate Textbook, Springer-Verlag, 2010
Grading
No. Item
% Explanations for the conditions
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
Week 1 2/17,2/19 Introduction and basic concepts
Week 2 2/24,2/26
Vector and tensor analysis, application to fluid
mechanics
Week 3 3/03,3/05 Kinematics of fluid motion
Week 4 3/10,3/12 Differential balances in fluid mechanics
Week 5 3/17,3/19 Integral balances in fluid mechanics
Week 6 3/24,3/26 Inviscid flows
Week 7 3/31
First mid-term examination
Week 8 4/07,4/09 Inviscid flows
Week 9 4/14,4/16 Viscous laminar flows
Week 10 4/21,4/23 Viscous laminar flows
Week 11 4/28,4/30 Laminar-turbulent transition
Week 12 5/05,5/07 Turbulent flows
Week 13 5/12,5/14 Turbulent flows. Second mid-term examination
Week 14 5/19,5/21 Turbulent flows
Week 15 5/26,5/28 Boundary layer theory
Week 16 6/4
Boundary layer theory
Week 17 6/09,6/11 Boundary layer theory
Week18 6/18
Final Examination