# Postgraduate study

**Source**: https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/aerospace-engineering/?card=course&code=ENG5091
**Parent**: https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/aerospace-engineering/

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# Aerospace Engineering MSc

## Physics of Fluids M ENG5091

- **Academic Session:** 2025-26
- **School:** School of Engineering
- **Credits:** 10
- **Level:** Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- **Typically Offered:** Semester 1
- **Available to Visiting Students:** Yes
- **Collaborative Online International Learning:** No
- **Curriculum For Life:** No

### Short Description

This course develops the fundamental equations of slightly viscous fluid flow, and applies these equations to problems in laminar and turbulent flows, boundary layers in particular.

### Timetable

2x1 hour lectures per week

### Excluded Courses

ENG4102

### Co-requisites

None

### Assessment

80% Written Exam

20% Set Exercise. Students to submit answers to a given problem set.

**Main Assessment In:** December

### Course Aims

To enhance understanding of viscous fluid flows and to develop the skills necessary for the application of basic analytical and numerical simulations of such flows

### Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ identify the limitations of ideal flow modelling in the case of streamlined and bluff bodies;

■ derive the fundamental equations of fluid motion and demonstrate understanding of the terms involved;

■ perform an order of magnitude analysis of the fundamental equations as they apply to flow in attached boundary layers;

■ develop and apply solution methodologies for both laminar and turbulent boundary layer equations;

■ compare boundary layer solutions with experimental data and quantify differences, and limitations of the presented theory;

■ describe the main features of the transition process in boundary layers;

■ explain the process of Reynolds averaging, and apply to the equations of motion;

■ describe the nature of the turbulence closure problem, and critically assess some basic models for addressing this problem.

### Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must attend the degree examination and submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

Students should attend at least 75% of the timetabled classes of the course.

Note that these are minimum requirements: good students will achieve far higher participation/submission rates.  Any student who misses an assessment or a significant number of classes because of illness or other good cause should report this by completing a MyCampus absence report.

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- [Programme overview](https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/aerospace-engineering/)
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