AE6050: Course Overview
Catalog Description
Defining equations for compressible flows, real gas properties and their effect on the behavior of equilibrium and non-equilibrium flows.

Course Goals
A student taking this course is intended to master the following subjects:

  1. Equilibrium properties of high temperature gases, e.g., calorically imperfect gases and reacting gases.
  2. Behavior of equilibrium and frozen flows with real gas properties.
  3. Nonequilibrium (rate) processes for gas dynamic flows.
  4. Behavior of nonequilibrium flows.
  5. Radiative energy exchange for gases and impacts on gasdynamic flows.
Prerequisites:
AE 6765 Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Gases. Also, specific areas/concepts that students should have some familiarity with are:
  1. Exposure to undergraduate level compressible flow for thermally and calorically perfect gases: 1-d isentropic nozzle flow, normal and oblique shocks, expansion waves
  2. Equilibrium thermodynamics of chemically reacting gases
  3. Statistical mechanics and energy level (quantum) description of matter
  4. Kinetic theory of gases
  5. Some computer modeling capability (Fortran, C, Matlab, spreadsheets, etc.)
Texts
    Introduction to Physical Gas Dynamics, Vincenti and Kruger, Krieger, 1965.
 Additional Sources:
   Hypersonic and High Temperature Gasdynamics, Anderson, McGraw Hill or AIAA.
   Modern Compressible Flow with Historical Perspective, 2nd Edition, Anderson, McGraw Hill, 1990.