MECH&AE 250D · MAE 250DComputational Fluid Dynamics for Compressible Flows
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to useful methods for computation of aerodynamic flow fields. Coverage of potential, Euler, and Navier-Stokes equations for subsonic to hypersonic speeds.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Summer 2026
- Winter 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
Requisites: courses 150A, 150B, 182C.
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MECH&AE 250D
- MECH&AE 150AIntermediate Fluid Mechanics
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE 150BAerodynamics
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields3 more beneath
- MECH&AE 182CNumerical Methods for Engineering Applications
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
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