Mechanical Engineering

MECH 6516 Engineering Acoustics 
CRN: 15570
Days: MWF
Time: 2:00-2:50
Room: Ramsay 304B
Professor: Crocker, Email: crockmj@auburn.edu
Description: The fundamentals of acoustics, Vibrations of strings, bars, plates.  Acoustic plane waves, architectural acoustics and noise will be emphasized.
 
MECH 7116 Advanced Fluid Mechanics I
CRN: 15573
Days: TR
Time: 9:30-10:45
Room: Ramsay 200
Professor: Khodadadi, Email: jkhodada@eng.auburn.edu
Description: Mass Conservation; Momentum Equation; Energy Equation; Dimensional Analysis; Fully-Developed Laminar Flows; Similarity Solutions; Boundary layer Approximation; Stability of Laminar Flows.
 
MECH 7256 Boiling and Condensation
CRN: 15574
Days: MWF
Time: 9:00 - 9:50         
Room: Ramsay 202
Professor: Bhavnani, email: bhavnsh@auburn.edu
Description: Hydrodynamics of vapor-liquid flow, pool boiling, forced convective boiling, condensation, instabilities in two systems, augmentation of boiling and condensation.
 
MECH 7306 Fracture Mechanics
CRN: 15576
Days: TR
Time: 2:30 - 3:45
Room: Ramsay 200
Professor: Tippur, Email: tippuhv@auburn.edu
Description: Stress and strain analysis of cracked bodies, energy release rate, Griffith problem, modes of fracture crack tip fields, stress intensity factors, small scale crack tip yielding, the J-integral, HRR equations, experimental and numerical methods for fracture parameter estimation.
 
MECH 7346 Inelastic Stress Analysis
CRN: 15577
Days: TR
Time: 8:00 - 9:15
Room: Ramsay 202
Professor: Suhling, Email: suhlijc@auburn.edu
Description: Introduction to modeling material behavior of non-elastic materials.  Theories of plasticity, linear and non-linear viscoelasticity and viscoplasticity. Applications to modern engineering materials and simple structural members.
 
MECH 7616 Advanced Dynamics
CRN: 15579
Days: TR
Time: 8:00 - 9:15
Room: Ramsay 200
Professor: Flowers, Email: flowegt@auburn.edu
Description:  Dynamics of particles and systems of particles applied to engineering problems.  Work-energy and impulse-momentum principles.  Lagrange's equations and Hamilton's Principle.