MDM528 COMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW

Course Code:8760528
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (3.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:8.0
Department:Mechanical Design and Manufacturing
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Graduate
Course Coordinator:
Offered Semester:Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the student will understand the physical mechanism of compressible fluid flow.

At the end of this course, the student will understand the principles of one-dimensional compressible flows with area change and its practical applications.

At the end of this course, the student will understand the principles of one-dimensional compressible flows involving normal shock waves and its practical applications

At the end of this course, the student will understand the principles of one-dimensional compressible flows with friction and its practical applications.

At the end of this course, the student will understand the principles of one-dimensional compressible flows with heat transfer.

At the end of this course, the student will understand the principles of two-dimensional supersonic flows and its practical applications.

At the end of this course, the student will understand the theory of method of characteristics.

At the end of this course, the student will understand the principles of one-dimensional unsteady flows and its practical applications.


Course Content

Isentropic flows,normal shock Waves,flow in constant are ducts with friction,flow in ducts with heating and cooling,steady and two-dimensional supersonic flows,wave propagation,multi-dimensional equations of gas dynamics,flow with small perturbations,methods of characteristics,solution of unsteady one-dimensional flows.


Course Learning Outcomes

Ability to distinguish incompressible and compressible flows.

Ability to understand the wave propagation phenomenon in subsonic, sonic and supersonic flows.

Ability to solve one dimensional compressible flow problems involving area change.

Ability to solve one dimensional compressible flow problems involving stationary, moving and reflected shock waves.

Ability to analyze converging and de Laval nozzles.

Ability to solve one dimensional compressible flow problems with friction.

Ability to solve one dimensional compressible flow problems with heat transfer.

Ability to analyze one-dimensional unsteady flows using method of characteristics.

Ability to solve two dimensional compressible flow problems involving oblique shock waves, Prandtl-Meyer expansion waves.

Ability to analyze overexpansion and underexpansion flow regimes in de Laval nozzles and airfoils.