Constructionist Experiential Learner-Enhanced Teaching in English for Academic Purposes
Dietmar Tatzl
Appendices
Extract
Appendix A: Students’ Specimen Project Report Extracts
The language in the extracts from this students’ report has not been teacher corrected, but page breaks and omissions have been marked within square brackets. The accuracy of in-text references has not been checked by the teacher either. Students’ names on the title sheet are pseudonyms. Students gave their written permission for the publication of this report.
Final Project Report
Computational fluid dynamics simulation of the boundary layer over a flat plate
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1. Introduction
The concept of the boundary layer was first introduced by Prandtl in 1904 in his boundary layer hypothesis (Prandtl, 1904). This paper revolutionized the analysis of viscous flows. “The boundary layer is the thin region of flow adjacent to a surface, where the flow is retarded by the influence of friction between a solid surface and the fluid” (Anderson, 2011, p. 966). It only occurs in viscous flows and is the physical phenomenon of skin friction and aerodynamic heating of the surface and hence the knowledge of the boundary layer is critical for the calculation of drag.
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