ME 420 - Gas Dynamics

Course Cross-listed with ME 530
3 credit(s)
The dynamics and thermodynamics of compressible fluid flow. Equations of motion for inviscid gas flows, one-dimensional gas flows, oblique shock and expansion waves, quasi-one-dimensional flows, nozzle and diffuser operation, flows with friction, flows with heating and cooling, two-dimensional flows, introduction to numerical methods in gasdynamics. Students who have completed ME 420 cannot take ME 530.
Prerequisite(s): ME 337 and ME 340.

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