ECTS - Advanced Fluid Mechanics
Advanced Fluid Mechanics (ME621) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Advanced Fluid Mechanics | ME621 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Ph.D. |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Question and Answer. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | This graduate course is a survey of advanced concepts of fluid mechanics, beyond the level taught in a first course at the undergraduate level. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | This course is a survey of principal concepts and methods of fluid dynamics. Topics include mass conservation, momentum, and energy, equations for continua; Navier-Stokes equation for viscous flows; similarity and dimensional analysis; lubrication theory; boundary layers and separation; circulation and vorticity theorems; potential flow |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basic Laws:Conservation of Mass, Momentum, and Energy | |
| 2 | Newton’s Second Law, The First Law of Thermodynamics. | |
| 3 | Principal concepts and methods of fluid dynamics. | |
| 4 | Constitutive Relations of Viscous Flows | |
| 5 | Analysis of Viscous Flows | |
| 6 | Kinematics of Flow: Streamline, Pathline, Streakline and Timeline, Vortex, Circulation | |
| 7 | Inviscid Flow | |
| 8 | Similarity and dimensional analysis | |
| 9 | Lubrication theory | |
| 10 | Boundary layers and separation | |
| 11 | Circulation and vorticity theorems | |
| 12 | Potential flow | |
| 13 | Introduction to turbulence | |
| 14 | Lift and drag; surface tension and surface tension driven flows. |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. 1. White, F. M., Viscous Fluid Flow. McGraw-Hill Book Company. |
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| 2. 2. Schlichting, H., Boundary Layer Theory. McGraw-Hill Book Company. | |
| 3. 3. Exerpts from Graebel: "Advanced fluid mechanics" Academic Press 2006. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 14 | 5 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | 2 | 20 |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 2 | 40 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Toplam | 19 | 95 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | An ability to solve mathematically defined advanced engineering problems analytically. | X | ||||
| 2 | An ability to solve mathematically defined advanced engineering problems numerically. | X | ||||
| 3 | An ability to use the technology and the literature effectively in the civil engineering research domain. | |||||
| 4 | An ability to conduct qualitative research in civil engineering and publish articles in conferences and journals in the area. | |||||
| 5 | Ability to design and apply theoretical, experimental and modeling based researches; analyze and solve complex problems encountered in this process. | X | ||||
| 6 | To complete and apply knowledge by using scientific methods using uncertain, limited or incomplete data; use information from different disciplines. | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Total Workload | 140 | ||