EML 4711 Intro to Gas Dynamics

COURSE #: EML 4711
http://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/~dommelen/courses/gas		 COURSE TITLE: Intro to Gas Dynamics
TERMS OFFERED: Fall PREREQUISITES: EML 3016C, Thermal Fluids II, or equivalent.
TEXTBOOKS/REQUIRED MATERIAL: Modern Compressible flow with Historical Perspective by John D. Anderson, Jr. McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 1990. ISBN 0-07-001673-9. RESPONSIBLE FACULTY: Leon van Dommelen

DATE OF PREPARATION: 8/25/02
COURSE LEADER(S): Leon van Dommelen SCIENCE/DESIGN (%): 100/0
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:

This course is a thorough one-dimensional treatment of compressible flows and applications to nozzle, diffuser, sound waves, tunnel, and shock-tube flows.		 COURSE TOPICS:
  1. Some historical and introductory notes.
  2. One-dimensional flow.
  3. Quasi one-dimensional flow.
  4. Unsteady wave motion.
Additional topics as time permits.
COURSE OBJECTIVES* (Numbers shown in brackets are links to departmental educational outcomes.)
  1. Provide students with a minimum literacy into the origins, purposes, and methods of gas dynamics. [1,5,8]
  2. To teach students how thermodynamical concepts apply to gas dynamics. [1,5]
  3. To familiarize students with the features of inviscid compressible flows, including shock waves, expansion fans, and contact surfaces. [1,5]
  4. To teach students to analyze or compute one-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional flows in typical applications such as supersonic windtunnels, rocket nozzles, and shock tubes. [1,3,5,10]
COURSE OUTCOMES* (Numbers shown in brackets are links to the course objectives listed above.)
  1. Be literate about at least some of the most important historical developments in gas dynamics. [1]
  2. Understand the physical meaning of key thermodynamic state variables of simple gasses, including pressure, density, specific volume, temperature, internal energy, enthalpy, and entropy. [1]
  3. Understand the relationship between thermodynamic pressure and density or specific volume and mechanical properties, and be able to compute basic mechanical properties from the thermodynamic ones and vice-versa. [1]
  4. Understand the requirements for the thermodynamic state of a typical gas to be completely determined. [1]
  5. Understand the relationship between inviscid and isentropic flows for typical compressible flows, the major limitations of isentropic and inviscid flows, and the effect of irreversibility and viscous effects on entropy. [2]
  6. Be able to recognize where the equation of state may be used to find additional variables, and be able to do so. [1,2]
  7. Understand the concept of Mach number, and how it relates to compressibility effects, typical flow properties, and wave propagation. [3]
  8. Understand the physical origin of the equations of compressible one-dimensional flows. [1]
  9. Be able to analyze one-dimensional flows including shock waves, heat addition, and friction. [1]
  10. Understand the relationship between Mach number and stagnation and pitot properties and be able to compute their relationship in typical applications. [1,2,3]
  11. Be able to analyze converging and converging-diverging ducts in typical applications such as windtunnels, turbines, and rocket exit nozzles. [4]
  12. Be able to analyze the starting problem in supersonic wind tunnels. [4]
  13. Be able to analyze unsteady one-dimensional wave motion, including moving and reflected shock waves, expansion waves, for typical applications such as shock tubes and flow measurements. [4]
  14. Be able to graphically describe and analyze one-dimensional wave motions. [4]

Departmental criteria addressed: 1,3,5,8,10

*The ABET99 Group suggests up to 6 objectives and 1-3 outcomes per objective.

ASSESSMENT TOOLS

(see syllabus)
  1. Homework Problems
  2. Weekly quizzes
  3. Midterm
  4. Final