Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (UCSD)

Upper-Division courses

MAE 101A. Introductory Fluid Mechanics (4) Fluid statics; fluid kinematics; integral and differential forms of the conservation laws for mass, momentum and energy; Bernoulli equation; potential flows; dimensial analysis and similitude. Prerequisites: admission to an engineering major and grades of C– or better in Phys. 2A, Math. 20D, 20E, or consent of instructor.

MAE 101B. Advanced Fluid Mechanics (4) Laminar and turbulent flow. Pipe flow including friction factor. Boundary layers, separation, drag, and lift. Compressible flow including shock waves. Professional ethics will be discussed. Prerequisite: admission to an engineering major and grade of C– or better in MAE 101A or CENG 101A, and MAE 110A or CENG 102.

Graduate courses

MAE 210A. Fluid Mechanics I (4) (Cross-listed with CENG 210A.) Basic conservation laws. Flow kinematics. The Navier-Stokes equations and some of its exact solutions. Non-dimensional parameters and different flow regimes, vorticity dynamics. Prerequisites: MAE 101A-B and MAE 110A, or consent of instructor.

MAE 210B. Fluid Mechanics II (4) Potential flows, boundary layers, low-Reynolds number flows. Prerequisites: MAE 210A, MAE 101A-B, and MAE 110A, or consent of instructor.