Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

MECH 473 - ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS I

Long Title: ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS I
Department: *Mech Eng & Materials Science*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Governing equations for inviscid and viscous flows. Constitutive laws, simple non-Newtonian flows, and surface tension. Derivation and applications of the equations representing the conservation of mass and momentum. Various forms of the Bernoulli equation. Introductory concepts of computational fluid mechanics. Graduate/Undergraduate version: MECH 573.
Course URL: http://www.mems.rice.edu/TAFSM/MECH473/