May 05, 2026  
2009-2010 Graduate Catalog 
    
2009-2010 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PHYS 505 - Physics of Fluids

3 Credit Hours
Fluid physics, overview of fluid mechanics and associated computational techniques; general description of laminar and turbulent flows; subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows; continuum, transitional and free-molecular flows; pipe flow, nozzle flow and sonic orifice expansion flows; reacting and nonreacting flowfields; shock-tube physics; and introduction to method of characteristics and Monte Carlo computational techniques.



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