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Relevant Courses

MAE 333 - Engineering Fluid Dynamics (3 units)
Prerequisites: C E 205, MATH 370A all with a grade of “C” or better.
Fluid statics. Formulation of the conservation of mass, momentum and energy using finite control volume analysis and differential analysis. Dimensional analysis. Viscous flow in pipes.

MAE 334 - Aerodynamics I (3 units)
Prerequisites: MAE 333 with a grade of “C” or better.
The Bernoulli equation. Incompressible inviscid flow. Flow around circular cylinder, flow around thin airfoils. Panel method. Incompressible flow about wings of finite span. Vortex lattice method.

MAE 435 - Computational Fluid Dynamics I (3 units)
Prerequisites: MATH 370A, MAE 333 all with a grade of “C” or better.
Numerical methods for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations, finite difference and volume methods, analysis of consistency, stability, and convergence, panel method, modeling and computation of boundary layer flows, full potential equation, grid generation, application to inviscid and viscous subsonic, transonic/ supersonic flows.

MAE 534 - Fluid-Structure Interaction (3 units)
Prerequisites: Open to Engineering MS, Mechanical Engineering MS, or Aerospace Engineering MS students only.
Advanced principles of fluid-structure interaction and aeroelasticity; Elastic deformation, divergence, load distribution, and sweep effect on the static aeroelasticity; Stability, flutter, and modal analysis on the dynamic aeroelasticity; Time and frequency domain solution of the aeroelasticity.

MAE 535 - Computational Fluid Dynamics I (3 units)
Prerequisites:  Open to Engineering MS, Aerospace Engineering MS, and Mechanical Engineering MS students only.
Numerical methods for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations, finite difference and finite volume methods, analysis of consistency, stability, and convergence, panel method, modeling and computation of boundary layer flows, etc. Additional projects will be required for MAE 535.

MAE 635 - Computational Fluid Dynamics II (3 units)
Prerequisites: MAE 535 with a grade of “C” or better. Mechanical Engineering MS, Aerospace Engineering MS, Chemical 
Engineering MS, or Engineering MS students only.
Computational methods for solving Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, implicit and explicit schemes, upwind differencing and artificial diffusion, multi-grid techniques and convergence acceleration, unstructured grid techniques, turbulence modeling, application to inviscid and viscous subsonic, transonic, and supersonic flows, inverse problems and aerodynamic shape optimization.