AOE-3014: Fluid Dynamics for Aerospace and Ocean Engineers
Description: Fundamentals of fluids: stress, statics, viscosity, laminar and turbulent flow. Conservation of mass and momentum. Vorticity, circulation, and lift. Navier-Stokes equations. Ideal flow in two dimensions, streamlines, stream function, velocity potential, superposition. Thin airfoil theory. Physics of laminar and turbulent boundary layers and of transition. Boundary layer equations and basic tools for boundary layer calculation. Collaborative problem solving.
Pathways: N/A
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 17
Average GPA: 2.85 (rounds to B)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 14.73%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.88%
| Colin Adams | 2022 | 23.8% | 70.0% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 3.17 | 1 |
| Christopher J Roy | 2020 | 16.0% | 37.2% | 29.7% | 12.0% | 4.0% | 1.1% | 2.47 | 2 |
| Luca Massa | 2023 | 24.9% | 38.7% | 27.3% | 7.7% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 2.77 | 6 |
| John N Gilbert | 2022 | 25.0% | 34.2% | 24.1% | 7.5% | 1.9% | 7.4% | 2.77 | 3 |
| Candace E Wall | 2023 | 25.9% | 55.5% | 14.8% | 3.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.01 | 1 |
| Justin Jaworski | 2024 | 21.0% | 49.2% | 26.6% | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 2.85 | 2 |
| Behdad Davoudi | 2024 | 35.6% | 51.9% | 12.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.25 | 1 |
| Staff Balantrapu | 2020 | 66.6% | 22.2% | 11.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.52 | 1 |