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This is far from the only time this has happened, though...Many moons ago I was required to take a class in fluid dynamics in College. It was all observational

• semi-extrinsic 7y ago
  Either it was a poorly taught class, it was aimed at civil engineering and similar where you want simple models with broad applicability and don't care about the wide error bars, or maybe you remember best the observational stuff. But fluid mechanics has a very deep theoretical underpinning, and generally has interpretable models. I'd suggest skimming through a copy of either Lamb or Batchelor's book, to see how far you can get just with pen and pencil and no statistical input at all.
  • Damogran6 7y ago
    It WAS for Civil Engineering and it was 30 years ago. FEA was JUST starting to be a thing and it sure didn't reach down into anything I encountered. looking back through the google, I may be dimly remembering the calculations dealing with turbulent flow. It was a whole different experience to a College Junior that was used to the relatively simple equations from Physics, Statics and Dynamics.
    • semi-extrinsic 7y ago
      Sounds like the standard way to teach fluids for civ.eng. All the flows you'll ever encounter will be turbulent, no point in learning about all the beautiful results that are mainly for laminar flows. The books I mentioned are classics in the field and were first published in 1895 and 1967, respectively. Both are still in print. No computers, just advanced math (vector calculus etc).