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AOE-4064: Fluid Flows in Nature

Description: Course designed to build upon and broaden a basic traditional engineering knowledge of fluid flows into areas concerning a variety of natural occurrences and phenomena that involve fluid motions in important ways. Drag of sessile systems and motile animals, gliding and soaring, flying and swimming, internal flows in organisms, low Reynolds number flows, fluid-fluid interfaces, unsteady flows in nature and wind engineering.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: AOE-3014 or CEE-3304 or ESM-3024 or ME-3414 or ME-3404

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 9

Average GPA: 3.32 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 12.72%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.69%

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Grade Distribution Over Time

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Spring 2019Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Spring 2023Spring 2024Term050% W