CIVE 300
Fluid
Mechanics
T.
K. Gates
Civil
& Environmental Engineering Department
Colorado
State University
Fall
2007
PROF. GATES OFFICE HOURS:
8:30 - 9:30 Mon, 2:30 - 4 Wed
B209 Engineering Bldg., 491 - 5043
TA OFFICE HOURS/Email:
The graduate teaching assistants will be available for consultation on homework problems and lab work in A4A (adjacent to the Fluid Mechanics Lab) during the following hours:
Kris Bruun
kb4all@engr.colostate.edu 491-4897
10 - 11, 1 - 3 Thur
Morgan Ruark
morgan.ruark@gmail.com 491-4897
11 - 2 Tue
FINAL EXAM: Tue 11 Dec, 9:10 - 11:10AM
Sample Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Report
HOMEWORK REVIEW SESSION
The TAs will hold a question and answer session regarding the assigned homework problems each Wednesday from 5:30 to 7PM (beginning 29 August) in
231 Wagar
Homework Assignments
Policy on Homework:
Homework problems are assigned to help you learn the fundamental principles and skills of fluid mechanics and to provide you with opportunities to exercise your mind in the disciplines of analysis and synthesis that are crucial to successful engineering. There is no substitute for solving problems in learning these principles, skills, and disciplines.
Working together in groups on homework problems is fine and, when done rightly, can be beneficial. However, if you work in a group do not sit passively by, waiting for someone else in the group to jump-start the solution process. Instead, before getting together, think and jot down notes on your own about the problems and what approach, assumptions, and methods should be applied to obtain a solution. Then, we you get together, actively participate in the discussion. Regardless of whether you work entirely on your own or you participate in a group discussion, you are expected to conduct and write up the homework solutions entirely on your own and to turn them in as your own work. Do not copy solutions from any person or from any other source. To do so is unethical and immoral and, if you are caught, will result in serious consequences, including failure.
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Data
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Images/Graphs
“Marine stratocumulus clouds frequently form parallel rows, or ‘cloud
streets,’ along the direction of wind flow. When the flow is interrupted
by an obstacle such as an island, a series of organized eddies can appear
within the cloud layer downwind of the obstacle. These turbulence patterns
are known as von Karman vortex streets. In these images from NASA’s
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer, an impressive vortex pattern continues
for over 300 km southward of Jan Mayen island. Jan Mayen is an isolated
territory of Norway, located about 650 km northeast of Iceland in the north
Atlantic Ocean. Jan Mayen’s Beerenberg volcano rises about 2.2 km
above the ocean surface, providing a significant impediment to wind flow.
These MISR images were captured on June 6, 2001, during Terra orbit 7808.
The entire vortex street can be seen in the top panel, which is a natural-color
view from the instrument’s nadir (downward-looking) camera. The area
covered measures 365 kilometers x 158 kilometers, and a cloud-clearing effect
is apparent at the vortex centers until finally closing on the sixteenth
“hole.” The bottom panel is a stereo anaglyph of a portion of
the vortex street, compiled using data from MISR’s 26-degree forward
and 70-degree backward viewing cameras. This view covers an area of about
183 kilometers x 96 kilometers. Despite the vertical exaggeration afforded
by using widely separated angles, the relatively modest height variation
in the cloud layer implies a vertically stable atmosphere. To facilitate
stereo viewing, the images have been oriented with north at the left.
Fluid dynamicist Theodore von Karman was the first to derive the conditions under which these turbulence patterns occur. Von Karman was a professor of aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology and one of the principal founders of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.”
(From NASA Earth Observatory)
Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team
Notes
Last Modified 11-Dec-2007