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    The document provides a review guideline for a course on viscous flows and boundary layer flows. It outlines key concepts and equations to understand for these topics, including the definitions of viscosity, Reynolds number, stress tensor, laminar and turbulent flow, boundary layer thicknesses, Prandtl's boundary layer equations, Blasius solution, and boundary layer separation.

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    ME2135 Part 2 Review Guideline

    April 2, 2024

    Viscous flows
    • Understand the definition and significance of viscosity and Re. Know how to calculate Re.
    • Understand the difference between Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks.
    • Know the definition of substantial derivative.
    • Understand how to apply the conservation of mass and conservation of momentum. Be able to use them to
    derive the continuity equation and Navier-Stokes (NS) equations.
    • The tensor calculus will not be tested, but you should get used to the tensor form of the NS equations. The
    definition of the streamfunction is important.
    • Simplification of NS equations, including the creeping flow equations and the exact solutions such as Poiseuille
    flow, Couette flow and Taylor-Couette flow.
    • Know how to perform the nondimensionalisation of an equation.
    • Understand what a stress tensor is, including the pressure stress and the viscous stress.
    • Be able to describe the difference between laminar and turbulent flows, as well as the transitional process.

    Boundary layer flows


    • Understand the spatial development of boundary layer flows over a flat plate or over a curved plate.
    • The difference between the laminar boundary layer and turbulent boundary layer is important.

    • Know the definitions of the three boundary layer thicknesses in incompressible flows. Be able to calculate the
    boundary layer displacement thickness and momentum thickness when the velocity profile is given.
    • Understand how Prandtl’s boundary layer equations are derived (what are the assumptions?).
    • Be able to derive the Blasius equation and know how to use the Blasius solution to calculate boundary layer
    thicknesses for the laminar boundary layer flows.
    • Understand that the laminar flow will transition to turbulence as long as the local Re is larger than a threshold
    value. Also understand that the transitional region is sensitive and dependent on many different factors.
    • Know the turbulent boundary layer structures in the wall-normal direction and the characteristics of each layer.

    • Understand the concepts of Reynolds decomposition, time averaging and Reynolds stress.
    • Be able to calculate the boundary layer thicknesses in turbulent boundary layer flows using Prandtl’s one-
    seventh power law.
    • Be able to use von Karman momentum integral equation to calculate the flow quantities related to a boundary
    layer flow.
    • Know the reason for the flow separation and the methods to prevent or delay it. Know how to tell a flow profile
    is separated, attached or on the verge of separation.
    • Be able to explain the application of boundary layer theory in reality (golf balls, vortex generators, airfoil
    design, flow control methods, etc.)

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