ASE491 SPECIAL TOPICS IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING: FUNDAMENTALS OF TURBULENCE THEORY
| Course Code: | 3840491 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Aerospace Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The objectives of this course are:
- To underline the necessity of studying turbulent flows in engineering
- To describe to which extent the governing equations of fluid motion are applicable
- To introduce how to investigate the relations between different physical quantities based on dimensional analysis
- To introduce how to interpret a mathematical expression to understand the underlying physics
- To describe what turbulence models aim at modeling and what are the advantages/drawbacks of various turbulence models
- To introduce fundamentals of signal analysis
- To introduce fundamentals of turbulence measurement
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
- Summarize the application fields of turbulence analysis in aerospace engineering
- Apply necessary modifications on the governing equations of fluid motion when given a type of turbulent flow
- Non-dimensionalize a given flow parameter
- Compare different flow cases in terms of similitude
- Derive average form of transport equations
- Classify the existing turbulence models
- Choose appropriate turbulence models to simulate a given flow type
- Calculate the one-point and two-point statistics when given an unsteady flow data
- Calculate the spectral content of a given signal
- Implement a turbulence model to a finite element solver to simulate a simple turbulent flow configuration
- Summarize the concepts of various flow velocity measurement techniques