MECH&AE 252A

Stability of Fluid Motion

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Mechanisms by which laminar flows can become unstable and lead to turbulence of secondary motions. Linear stability theory; thermal, centrifugal, and shear instabilities; boundary layer instability. Nonlinear aspects: sufficient criteria for stability, subcritical instabilities, supercritical states, transition to turbulence.

Letter grading.

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Requisite: course 150A.

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MECH&AE 150A

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MECH&AE 252A

MECH&AE 150AIntermediate Fluid Mechanics
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
  - MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
  - MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications3 more beneath
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
  - MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables2 more beneath
  - PHYSICS 1B

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