MAE Department

MAE 519/CIE 561- Turbulent Flow
Time: Tu-Th , 17:00-18:20
Place: OBRIAN 213
Spring 2008



General Information

Instructor: Dr. Cyrus Madnia. Email: madnia@eng.buffalo.edu

Office Location: 334 Jarvis Hall

Office Hours: Tu-Th, 10-11 am.  Please feel free to drop by my office at your convenience.

Text

S.B. Pope, Turbulent Flows, Cambridge University Press (2000).

Course Outline

Most flows of practical interest in engineering applications are turbulent, yet the extraordinary degree of spatial and temporal complexity present in these flows does not lend itself to a deterministic treatment such as is traditionally applied to the solution of flow problems. This course is an introduction to turbulent flows, the classical statistical description of turbulent flows, the dynamics of energy transfer and the dissipation in them, and the modeling of these flows in engineering practice. The subject should be of interest to students seeking the M.S. or Ph.D. degree in thermal- fluid sciences.

Grading

The final grade will be determined based on your performance on a Midterm Exam (35%), a Final Exam (50%), and homework problems (15%).

References

  1. Tennekes, H., and J.L. Lumley, A First Course in Turbulence, 1981, MIT Press.
  2. J.O. Hinze, Turbulence , 1975, McGraw-Hill.
  3. Monin, A.S., and Yaglom, A.M., Statistical Fluid Mechanics: Mechanics of Turbulence, 1979, MIT Press.

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