Spring 1998
Course Outline
| Week |
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HW | Comments |
| 1/12 | No class this week – Film Assignment | |||
| 1/19 | Introduction - Characteristics, Length Scales | T&L 1
Libby 1 |
No Class Monday 1/19 | |
| 1/26 | Introduction, Stability | White | 1 | |
| 2/2 | Stability and Transition of Laminar Flows | White | Make Appt for Review Paper Topic | |
| 2/9 | Statistical Tools in Turbulence | T&L 6
Libby 3 |
2 | |
| 2/16 | Reynolds’ Equations – Continuity, Momentum, Reynolds Stress, Closure | T&L 2.1-2.3
Libby 2.1-2.6,4.1-4.3, 4.8 |
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| 2/23 | Mean K.E., Turbulent K. E., Taylor Microscale, Energy Cascade | T&L 3.1,3.2
Libby 4.4-4.7 |
3 | |
| 3/2 | Vorticity Fluctuations | T&L 3.2,3.3 | ||
| 3/9 | Approaches to Closure | T&L 2.3, 2.5
Libby 7 |
4 | Mid-Term |
| 3/16 | Free Shear Flows – Intro, Wakes | T&L 4.1- 4.3 | Start Jet Expt | |
| 3/23 | Free Shear Flows – Mixing Layers, Jets | T&L 4.4, 4.5 | 5 | |
| 3/30 | Isothermal Grid Flow, Multiple Scales, Couette Flow | T&L 5.1-5.2 | ||
| 4/6 | Wall Bounded Turbulence (WBT) Equations | T&L 5.5 | Review Paper Critique | |
| 4/13 | WBT Law-of-the-Wall, Law-of-the-Wake | T&L 5.5 | 6 | Lab Due |
| 4/20 | WBT effects, compressibility, curvature | |||
| 4/27 | Spectral Nature of Turbulence | T&L 8.1 – 8.4 | Review Papers Due | |
| 5/4 | Final |