Radiative properties of surfaces. Exchange among nonideal surfaces. Radiative exchange with volume emitters. Furnace design applications. An overview of measurement techniques and instrumentation used in the current practice of experimental fluid mechanics.
Course emphasizes hot wire, hot film, and laser anemometry.
Provides practical laboratory experience. Other advanced topics of current interest. Van der Pol equation, perturbation methods, approximate methods, application to ecological systems. Classical solution examples for membrane shells and shells of revolution with bending. Additional topics selected from variational methods, finite element techniques, reinforced and composite shells.