Engine Gas Dynamics
Engine Gas Dynamics provides a physically based understanding of gas dynamics with applications to internal combustion engines.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2017: 3.59 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2019: 3.83 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=33 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.89 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Analyze the major physical processes that occur in gas dynamic flows within internal combustion engines.
Evaluate the performance and design of the principal air-handling systems in engine combustion.
Apply control volume analysis to solve fluid mechanics problems, for fluids at rest and in movement
Use the equations of fluid mechanics to solve realistic engineering problems involving fluids by making appropriate assumptions
Develop a mathematical working knowledge of the common manipulations that are performed for three dimensional time-dependent flows
Implement numerical solutions to selected fluid problems
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2017: 3.59 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2019: 3.83 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=33 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.89 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
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Topics
- Gas dynamics in internal combustion engines.
- Air-handling systems in engine combustion.
- Fluid mechanics and control volume analysis.
- Three-dimensional time-dependent flow manipulations.
- Numerical solutions for fluid problems.
Skills
- Analyzing physical processes in gas dynamic flows within internal combustion engines.
- Evaluating performance and design of air-handling systems in engine combustion.
- Applying control volume analysis to solve fluid mechanics problems.
- Using fluid mechanics equations to solve engineering problems with appropriate assumptions.
- Developing mathematical knowledge for manipulations of three-dimensional time-dependent flows.
- Implementing numerical solutions to selected fluid problems.
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