MEN 636Turbomachinery: Design and Analysis

Representation of performance of turbomachines. Mechanism of energy transfer. Factors limiting design and performance including surge, choking, and cavitation. Two- and three-dimensional flow phenomena. Performance analysis including multistage effects and off-design performance. Introduction to computational techniques. MEN Computational Fluid Dynamics (3.0); 3 cr. Physical and mathematical foundations of computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer with emphasis on applications: governing equations and mathematical approximations; partial differential and integral equations, discretization and solution methods, stability and convergence. Introduction to physical modeling of turbulence, combustion, and radiation. Prerequisite: MEN 600.