AEM8207

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AEM 8207 - Hydrodynamic Stability (3 Cr.)

Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics (11090) TIOT - College of Science and Engineering

Course description

Theory of hydrodynamic stability. Stability of shear flows, rotating flows, boundary layer, two fluid flows, fingering flows, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, Kelvin Helmholtz instability, capillary instability, convective/absolute stability. Methods of linear stability, normal modes, energy theory of stability, nonlinear perturbation, bifurcation theory, transition to turbulence.

prereq: 8201

Minimum credits

3

Maximum credits

3

Is this course repeatable?

No

Grading basis

OPT - Student Option

Lecture

Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?

No

Typically offered term(s)

Periodic Fall