MAE 533 - Gas Dynamics

(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Mechanical Engineering MS, Aerospace Engineering MS, Chemical Engineering MS, or Engineering MS students only.
Isentropic flow, normal and oblique shocks, Prandtl-Meyer flow, shock expansion theory, method of characteristics, nozzle flow, flow in ducts with friction and heat transfer, solutions of linearized potential equation with applications, slender body theory, similarity rules, transonic flow, shock wave/boundary layer interactions.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-Problems 3 hours)