ME 518 Boundary Layer Theory (Viscous Flows)

Spring 2015
Instructor: Zafer Dursunkaya
Office: B308
Phone: 5232
e-mail: refaz@metu.edu.tr
Schedule:

Thursdays: 9:4012:30, @ B202

Course Outline:

Introduction, conservation laws

Some exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equations
Creeping motion, laminar incompressible boundary layer
Similarity variable technique
Jets and wakes
Flows in converging and diverging channels
MT I
Thermal boundary layers
Higher order boundary layers and matched asymptotic expansions
MT II
Stability and transition to turbulence
Turbulent boundary layers

Textbook
F.M. White, Viscous Fluid Flow, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1991
Reference Books
G. K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, 1981
R. B. Bird, W.E. Steward, E.N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, John Wiley and Sons,
2002
I. G. Currie, Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids, 3rd ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2002
H. Ockendon and J.R. Ockendon, Viscous Flow, Cambridge University Press, 1995
R. H. Sabersky et al. Fluid Flow, 4th ed., Prentice Hall, 1999
H. Schlichting, Boundary-Layer Theory, 7th ed., McGraw Hill, 1979
Course conduct
The course material will be delivered in the lectures. Homework will be biweekly assigned.
Movies about fluid mechanics in general boundary layer flows in particular will be shown and
discussed in class.
Tentative Grading
Grading will be based on: 2 midterms, a final exam and homework