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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: 36

Average GPA: 2.54 (B-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 11.25%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.70%

John N Gilbert202225.0%34.2%24.1%7.5%1.9%7.4%2.773
Justin Jaworski202416.2%45.9%32.4%5.4%0.0%0.0%2.661
Christopher J Roy202014.0%31.1%36.5%12.6%3.8%2.1%2.399
Roger L Simpson20119.8%36.9%35.3%11.0%6.7%0.4%2.288
Luca Massa202322.5%37.1%28.9%9.4%1.3%0.8%2.678
Matthew Kuester20169.3%34.9%31.5%17.4%2.0%4.7%2.332
James F Marchman200519.3%35.8%27.0%12.4%5.5%0.0%2.512
Colin Adams202223.8%70.0%2.5%1.3%1.3%1.3%3.171
Staff Balantrapu202066.6%22.2%11.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.521
Candace E Wall202325.9%55.5%14.8%3.7%0.0%0.0%3.011

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