MECH&AE 250B · MAE 250BViscous and Turbulent Flows
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Fundamental principles of fluid dynamics applied to study of fluid resistance. States of fluid motion discussed in order of advancing Reynolds number; wakes, boundary layers, instability, transition, and turbulent shear flows.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 150A.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 250B
- MECH&AE 150AIntermediate Fluid Mechanics
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields3 more beneath
1 direct requisite. Showing 8 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE 250B
- MECH&AE 250ESpectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics
- MECH&AE 252BTurbulence
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.