MAE department

MAE 101A. Introductory Fluid Mechanics (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/MAE.html#mae101a

Description

Fluid statics; fluid kinematics; integral and differential forms of the conservation laws for mass, momentum, and energy; Bernoulli equation; potential flows; dimensional analysis and similitude. Prerequisites: PHYS 2A or 4A and MATH 20D and MATH 20E or MATH 31CH, or consent of instructor. Enrollment restricted to MC 25, MC 27, MC 29, MC 30–34, and MC 35–37 majors only.

Prerequisite courses

Successor courses

MAE 101A is a prerequisite of the following 11 courses:

• BENG 103B
• MAE 101B
• MAE 101C
• MAE 104
• MAE 113
• MAE 118
• MAE 120
• MAE 122
• MAE 126A
• MAE 171A
• MAE 210B