MECH484 TURBULENCE AND ITS MEASUREMENT
| Course Code: | 3650484 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Mechanical Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will:
1. learn the characteristics of turbulent flow, concept of turbulent scales, and the physical consequences of unstable, transitional and turbulent flow.
2. learn energy cascade, Kolmogorov’s Universal Equilibrium Theory, turbulent transport of momentum, turbulent kinetic energy, and the statistical description of turbulent flow.
3. learn to perform literature search.
4. learn how to characterize turbulent flow.
5. learn different flow measurement techniques.
6. learn how to post-process measurement data.
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
1. understand the main characteristics of turbulent flow.
2. distinguish laminar and turbulent flow.
3. understand the physical consequences of complex flows.
4. understand the turbulence using governing equations, Kolmogorov’s equations, and statistical description.
5. use different methods to characterize turbulent flow including Reynolds decomposition, triple decomposition, autocorrelation, crosscorrelation, power spectral density.
6. understand the working principles of different flow measurement techniques including hot wire anemometry, laser Doppler anemometry and particle image velocimetry and know how to use them.
7. experience post-processing the data obtained from PIV and hot wire measurements.