Gas Dynamics

Host University

University of Virginia

Semester

Fall 2025

Course Number

MAE 6360

CRN

16277

Credits

3

Discipline

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Instructor

Thomas Ward

Times and Days

Asynchronous

Course Information

Analyzes the theory and solution methods applicable to multi-dimensional compressible inviscid gas flows at subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic speeds; similarity and scaling rules from small-petrurbation theory, introduction to transonic and hypersonic flows; method-of-characteristics applications to nozzle flows, jet expansions, and flows over bodies one dimensional non-steady flows; properties of gases in thermodynamic equilibrium, including kinetic-theory, chemical-thermodynamics, and statistical-mechanics considerations; dissociation and ionization process; quasi-equilibrium flows; and introduction to non-equilibrium flows.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: MAE 6100.