Course Description

Provide students with a foundational understanding of how air interacts with solid objects, a concept crucial for fields like aerospace engineering, automotive design, and environmental engineering. Key topics:

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics: Introduction to the properties of fluids, the concept of pressure, buoyancy, and flow patterns.

Aerodynamic Forces: Understanding lift, drag, and thrust, including how these forces affect the performance and design of vehicles and structures.

Airflow Dynamics: Study of laminar and turbulent flow, boundary layers, and the impact of these factors on aerodynamic efficiency.

Theory and Application: Introduction to Bernoulli’s equation and other aerodynamic theories, with applications to aircraft, cars, bridges, and buildings.

Wind Tunnel Testing: Basics of wind tunnel testing, including scale modeling and data analysis techniques used in aerodynamic design.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): An overview of how CFD is used in predicting and analyzing aerodynamic properties in complex scenarios.

Prerequisite: None

Exclusion: ENG104

Distribution Requirement: Science

Textbook and Other Materials

All course readings, assignments, and other important information will be available on the course website. Please make sure to check it regularly.

• Course Website: http://www.university.edu/csc101
• Discussion Board: http://www.university.edu/csc101/discussion

Assessments