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Winter 2005 Fluid Mechanics  Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 Course Information Meeting time: Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11 am, Guggenheim 101 Movies: Monday 2-3 pm, Guggenheim 101 Next Movie: Spring Term! Title: Movie Schedule (Winter Term) Units: 9 units (3-0-6); first, second, and third term Prerequisites: ACM 95/100 abc or equivalent (may be taken concurrently); basic knowledge of fluid mechanics Instructor: Dr. Dale Pullin Office: Guggenheim 306F, x6081 Office Hours: Open door policy By appointment, contact Suzy Dake x3284 Teaching Assistants: James Karnesky Office: Guggenheim 26, x3163 Office Hours: Thursday,  2-4pm Marco Latini Office: Firestone 210, x1723 Office Hours: Wednesday 1-3pm Subash Pillai Office: Guggenheim 216, x4791 Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4pm Friday 1-2pm NOTE: Office hours are held in the Northrop Reading Room Firestone 204 (on the bridge between Firestone and Guggenheim) Course Description: Fundamentals of fluid mechanics. Microscopic and macroscopic properties of liquids and gases; the continuum hypothesis; review of thermodynamics; general equations of motion; kinematics; stresses; constitutive relations; vorticity, circulation; Bernoulli's equation; potential flow; thin-airfoil theory; surface gravity waves; buoyancy-driven flows; rotating flows; viscous creeping flow; viscous boundary layers; introduction to stability and turbulence; quasi one-dimensional compressible flow; shock waves; unsteady compressible flow; acoustics. (2004-2005 Caltech Catalog) Course Material Description Date Posted Intro_Ae101_2004.pdf First day handout 09/30/04 BradNotes.pdf Dr. Sturtevants Notes for AE 101 09/30/04 ShepherdGuide.pdf Dr. Shepherd Skeleton guide to AE 101 09/30/04 AxA_Const_021019.pdf Dr. Dimotakis appendix on units, constants and conversion factors 10/04/04 AxB_Delta_021109.pdf Dr. Dimotakis appendix on the Kronecker and Dirac delta functions 10/04/04 AxB_Vect_011024.pdf Dr. Dimotakis appendix on vectors and tensors 10/04/04 AxC_Fourier_021004.pdf Dr. Dimotakis appenxing on the Fourier transform 10/04/04 pullin_curvilinear.pdf Dr. Pullin's notes on curvilinear co-ordinate systems 10/20/04 lecture_hyperbolic.pdf Marco Latini's lecture on hyperbolic systems and characteristic theory 10/26/04 Homework & Exams The homework is handed out on Friday and due the following Friday at 5pm in the mailboxes of the grading TA James Karnesky: mailbox is in Firestone Marco Latini: mailbox is in Firestone Subash Pillai: mailbox is in Firestone Please write Your Name, Homework Number and Grading TA on all assignments If you have any questions regarding your homework score please see the grading TA for a resolution of the conflict Winter Solutions Due Date Grading TA HW#1 PDF January 14, 5pm Subash Pillai HW#2 PDF January 21, 5pm James Karnesky HW#3 PDF January 28, 5pm Marco Latini HW#4 PDF February 4, 5pm Subash Pillai Midterm PDF February 11 HW#5 PDF February 18, 5pm February 21, 5pm (By Request) James Karnesky HW#6 PDF February 25, 5pm Marco Latini HW#7 PDF March 7, 5pm Subash Pillai HW#8 PDF Cancelled Final Exam PDF March 15, 5pm Fall 2004 AE101a page Spring 2005 AE101c page Last modified on March 9, 2005 by Marco Latini