Courses Taught
ME-040: Thermodynamics — Principles of engineering thermodynamics; applications of these principles to thermodynamic cycles.
ME-143: Fluid Mechanics — Fluid pressure distributions; integral control volume systems; differential relations for a fluid particle; dimensional similarity; viscous flow in ducts; boundary layer flows; inviscid incompressible flows.
ME-218: Numerical Methods for Engineering — Foundational concepts of numerical integration, numerical differentiation, and numerical approximation and solution of differential and partial differential equations of the type encountered in the analysis of engineering problems and data processing.
ME-233: Vortex Flows — General theorems of vorticity transport in fluids; methods for solution of vortex flows; application to wake vortices, turbulent wall-layer vortices, wing-tip vortices, intake vortices, vortex-structure interaction, vortex reconnection, vortex breakdown, tornadoes and hurricanes.
ME-238: Energy Systems Engineering — Engineering assessment of both potentially sustainable and unsustainable practical primary energy systems. Examination of options of meeting demand and impacts on the environment.
ME-243: Incompressible Flow — Intermediate treatment of incompressible fluid flow; Navier- Stokes equations; two-dimensional potential flows; wing theory; vorticity and vortex structures; laminar and turbulent boundary layers.
ME-304: Adv Engineering Analysis I — Analytical methods for the solution of partial differential equations in engineering mechanics and physics, including: eigenfunction expansions; Fourier series; Sturm-Liouville theory and special functions
ME-305: Adv Engineering Analysis II — Advanced analytical techniques for problems in engineering mechanics and physics, including: integral transform methods Green’s functions, perturbation methods, and variational calculus.
ME-336: Continuum Mechanics — Tensors, conservation laws, field equations for solids and fluids.
ME-343: Advanced Fluid Dynamics — Stress in continuum; kinematics, dynamics; potential fields; Wing theory; Navier-Stokes equation; hydrodynamic stability; turbulence; laminar, turbulent boundary layer theory; transient flows; free laminar, turbulent flows; mixing.