MEEN- 622-600

ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS

SPRING 2009 TR: 8:00- 9:15 am
ZACH-227A

Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. T. Schobeiri

Office Room 121, EPB, Tel.: 845-0819, tschobeiri@mengr.tamu.edu
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Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Meinhard T. Schobeiri

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Title: Fluid Mechanics, A Graduate Text Book

Author: Meinhard T. Schobeiri:
ISBN 978-3-642-11593-6
e-ISBN 978-3-642-11594-3
2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-11594-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009943377

Course Outline for MEEN-622

The following outline corresponds to the chapters in the above book

Review of Tensor Analysis in Cartesian Coordinate System

2. 1 Tensors in Three-Dimensional Euclidean Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2.1.1 Index Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.2 Vector Operations: Scalar, Vector and Tensor products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2.1 Scalar product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2.2 Vector or cross product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2.3 Tensor product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3 Contraction of Tensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.4 Differential Operators in Fluid Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.4.1 Substantial derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4.2 Differential operator L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.5 Operator L Applied to Different Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.5.1 Scalar product of L and V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.5.3 Tensor Product of L and V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.5.4 Scalar Product of L and a Second Order Tensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.5.5 Eigenvalue and eigenvector of a second order Tensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Tensor Operations in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
B.1 Change of Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
B.2 Co- and Contravariant Base Vectors, Metric Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
B.3 Physical Components of a Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
B.4 Derivatives of the Base Vectors, Christoffel Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
B.5 Spatial Derivatives in Curvilinear Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
B.5.1 Application of L to Tensor Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
B.6 Application Example 1: Inviscid Incompressible Flow Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
B.6.1 Equation of Motion in Curvilinear Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
B.6.2 Special Case: Cylindrical Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
B.6.3 Base Vectors, Metric Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
B.6.4 Christoffel Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
B.6.5 Introduction of Physical Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
B.7. Application Example 2: Viscous Flow Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
B.7.1 Equation of Motion in Curvilinear Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
B.7.2 Special Case: Cylindrical Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Inviscid Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
6.1 Incompressible Potential Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.2 Complex Potential for Plane Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.2.1 Elements of Potential Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.2.2.1 Translational Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.2.2.2 Sources and Sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.2.2.3 Potential Vortex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.2.2.4 Dipole Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2.2.5 Corner Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.3 Superposition of Potential Flow Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.3.1 Superposition of a Uniform Flow and a Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.3.2 Superposition of a Translational Flow and a Dipole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.3.3 Superposition of a Translational Flow, a Dipole and a Vortex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.3.4 Superposition of a Uniform Flow a Source and a Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6.3.5 Superposition of a Source and a Vortex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
6.4 Blasius Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
6.5 Kutta-Joukowski Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.6 Conformal Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.6.1 Conformal Transformation, Basic Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.6.2 Kutta-Joukowsky Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
6.6.3 Joukowsky Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
6.6.3.1 Circle-Flat Plate Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6.6.3.2 Circle-Ellipse Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6.6.3.3 Circle-Symmetric Airfoil Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6.6.3.4 Circle-Cambered Airfoil Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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 6.6.3.5 Circulation, Lift, Kutta Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6.7 Vortex theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.7.1 Thomson Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.7.2 Generation of Circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.7.3 Helmholtz Vortex Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6.7.4 Vortex Induced Velocity Field, Law of Bio -Savart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.7.5 Induced Drag Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Viscous Laminar Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

7.1 Velocity distribution on a Steady Viscous Flow Through a Curved Channel . . . . . . . . . . 3
7.1.1 Case I: Conservation Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7.1.2 Case I: Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.1.3 Case I: Curved Channel, Negative Pressure Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.1.4 Case I: Curved Channel, Positive Pressure Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.1.5 Case II: Radial Flow, Positive Pressure Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.2 Temperature Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.2.1 Case I: Solution of Energy Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.2.2 Case I: Curved Channel, Negative Pressure Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.2.3 Case I: Curved Channel, Positive Pressure Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.2.4 Case II: Radial Flow, Positive Pressure gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.3 Steady Parallel Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.3.1 Couette Flow Between two Parallel Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.3.2 Couette Flow Between two Concentric Cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.3.3 Hagen-Poiseuille Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7.4 Unsteady Laminar Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7.4.1 Flow Near Oscillating Flat Plate, Stokes-Rayleigh Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7.4.2 Influence of Viscosity on Vortex Decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Laminar-turbulent Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
8.1 Stability of Laminar Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
8.2 Laminar-Turbulent Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
8.3 Stability of Laminar Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8.3.1 Stability of small disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8.3.2 The Orr-Sommerfeld Stability Equation ............................8
8.3.3 Orr-Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.3.4 Solution of Orr-Sommerfeld equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
8.3.5 Numerical Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8.4 Physics of an Intermittent Flow, Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8.4.1 Identification of Intermittent Behavior of Statistically Steady Flows . . . . . . . . . 18
8.4.2 Turbulent/non-turbulent Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8.4.4 Identification of Intermittent Behavior of Periodic Unsteady Flows . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.4.4 Intermittency Modeling for Periodic Unsteady Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
8.5 Implementation of Intermittency Function into Navier Stokes Equations . . . . . . . . . . . 31
8.5.1 Reynolds-averaged equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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 8.5.2 Conditioning the RANS-Equations for Intermittency Implementation . . . . . . . . . 34

Turbulent Flow, Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

9.1 Fundamentals of Turbulent Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
9.1.1 Type of Turbulence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
9.1.2 Correlations, Length and Time Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
9.1.3 Spectral Representation of Turbulent Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9.1.4 Spectral Tensor, Energy Spectral Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.2 Averaging Fundamental Equations of Turbulent Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9.2.1 Averaging Conservation Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9.2.1.1Averaging the Continuity Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9.2.1.2 Averaging the Navier-Stokes Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
9.2.1.3 Averaging the Mechanical Energy Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
9.2.1.4 Averaging the Thermal Energy Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
9.2.1.5 Averaging the Total Enthalpy Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
9.2.1.6 Quantities Resulting from Averaging to be Modeled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9.2.2 Equation of Turbulence Kinetic Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.2.3 Equation of Dissipation of Kinetic Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
9.3 Turbulence Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
9.3.1 Algebraic Model: Prandtl Mixing Length Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
9.3.2 Algebraic Model: Cebeci-Smith Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
9.3.3 Baldwin-Lomax Algebraic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
9.3.4 One- Equation Model by Prandtl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
9.3.5 Two-Equation Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.3.5.1 Two-Equation k-g Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.3.5.2 Two-Equation k-T-Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
9.3.5.3 Two-Equation k-T-SST-Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.4 Grid Turbulence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Free Turbulent Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

10.1 Types of Free Turbulent Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
10.1 Fundamentals Equations of Free Turbulent Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
10.2 Free Turbulent Flows at Zero-Pressure Gradient, Inductive Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
10.2.1 Plane Free Jet Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.2.2 Straight Wake at Zero Pressure Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.2.3 Free Jet Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.3 Wake Flow at Non-zero Lateral Pressure Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
10.3.1 Wake Flow in Turbomchinery, General Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10.3.2 Theoretical Concept, an Inductive Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10.3.3 Nondimensional Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.3.3 Near Wake, Far Wake Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10.3.4 Utilizing the Wake Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Boundary Layer Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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 11.1 Boundary Layer Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
11.2 Exact Solutions of Laminar Boundary Layer Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
11.2.1 Laminar Boundary Layer, Flat Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
11.2.2 Wedge Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
11.2.3 Polhausen Approximate Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
11.4 Boundary Layer Theory Integral Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
11.4.1 Boundary Layer Thicknesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
11.4.2 Boundary Layer Integral Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
11.5 Turbulent Boundary Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.5.1 Universal Wall Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
11.5.2 Velocity Defect Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
11.6 Boundary Layer, Differential Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
11.6.1 Solution of Boundary Layer Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
11.6.2 Measurement of Boundary Flow, Basic Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
11.6.3 Mixing Length Model, Calculation, Experimental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
11.6.3.1 Steady State Velocity Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
11.6.3.2 Steady State Velocity Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
11.7 Parameters Affecting Boundary Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
11.7.1 Parameter Variations, General Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
11.7.2 Effect of the Periodic Unsteady Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
11.7.2.2 Boundary Layer Development, Separation, Re-attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

12. Compressible Flow

12.1 Steady Compressible Flow at High Subsonic, Transonic, and Supersonic Mach Numbers
12.1.1 The Normal Shock Wave Relations
12.1.2 The Oblique Shock Wave Relations
12.1.3 Prandtl-Meyer Expansion
12.1.4 Shock-Expansion theory
12.2 Unsteady Compressible Flow
12.2.1 General Formulation of 3-D- Unsteady Compressible Flow
12.2.2 Shock Boundary Layer Interaction
12.2.3 Unsteady Wave Propagation, Shock Tubes
12.3 CFD-Simulation of Compressible Flow with Shock Waves
12.3.1 Evaluation of Several simulation cases using different turbulence model

Homework, Theoretical and Computational Projects, Tests

! Homework problems will be assigned and collected every week.

! Homework problems are of derivational/computational nature and are integral parts of the
projects.
! Five theoretical and computational projects will be assigned using FORTRAN or other
programing languages.
! Two students are allowed to work on a project, however, the contribution of each member must
be clearly defined.

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! At the end of each project a short PPT-presentation summarizes the work.
! All individual projects will have to have the format attached to this syllabus.
! The individual projects form a final report that exhibits the course performance.
! One Final test will be given

Grading Policy
Homework and projects 70%
Final exam 30%
Total 100%

Grades
90% and above A
80-89.5% B
70-79.5% C
60-69.5 D

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Policy Statement

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides
comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this
legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that
provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability
requiring an accommodation, please contact the Department of Student Life, Services for Students
with Disabilities, in Room 126 of the Koldus Building or call 845-1637.

Academic Integrity Statement

Aggie Honor Code: "An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do."
It is the responsibility of students and instructors to help maintain scholastic integrity at the
university by refusing to participate in or tolerate scholastic dishonesty (Student Rule 20. Scholastic
Dishonesty, http://student-rules.tamu.edu). New procedures and policies have been adopted
effective September 1, 2004. Details are available through the Office of the Aggie Honor System
(http://www.tamu.edu/aggiehonor/). An excerpt from the Philosophy & Rationale section states:
"Apathy or acquiescence in the presence of academic dishonesty is not a neutral act -- failure to
confront and deter it will reinforce, perpetuate, and enlarge the scope of such misconduct. Academic
dishonesty is the most corrosive force in the academic life of a university."

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