Fluid Dynamics

Host University

Virginia Tech

Semester

Fall 2026

Course Number

ME-5404

CRN

92053

Credits

3

Discipline

Mechanical Engineering

Times and Days

12:30pm-1:45pm

T, R

Course Information

Fundamental fluid mechanics: kinematics and dynamics. Continuum fluid dynamics including hydrostatics, flow kinematics, the concept of stress, constitutive relations, the equations of motion and energy for compressible and incompressible viscous and inviscid flows. Incompressible Newtonian viscous flows, similitude and physical modeling, inviscid potential flows, inviscid flows with vorticity, boundary layers, and an introduction to turbulent flow. I.

Prerequisites

None