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ME-5404: Fluid Dynamics

Description: Fundamental fluid mechanics: kinematics and dynamics. Continuum fluid dynamics including hydrostatics, flow kinematics, the concept of stress, constitutive relations, the equations of motion and energy for compressible and incompressible viscous and inviscid flows. Incompressible Newtonian viscous flows, similitude and physical modeling, inviscid potential flows, inviscid flows with vorticity, boundary layers, and an introduction to turbulent flow. I.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: AOE-6434, ME-6434, ME-6454, ME-6744

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 6

Average GPA: 3.66 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 57.27%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Alexandrina Untaroiu202481.9%18.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.711
John A Palmore202368.0%29.8%2.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.655

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Fall 2024Term050% W