MECH&AE 250H · MAE 250HComputational Fluid Dynamics for Incompressible Flows
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Review of equations of incompressible flow, finite difference methods and other methods of spatial approximation, time-marching schemes, numerical solution of model partial differential equations, application to Navier-Stokes equations, boundary conditions.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 150A, 182C.
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MECH&AE 250H
- MECH&AE 150AIntermediate Fluid Mechanics
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- 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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