>>11144774Having dealt with physicists who became CFD analysts and fluid dynamicists, I found that their analytical abilities and experimental skills are top notch, but fundamentals and numerics knowledge was highly rudimentary and they did not have the ability to understand the tradeoffs between different engineering factors and consequently make good judgments.
I think it should be taught to all physics majors even with the engineering and empiricism involved. This would be useful to them even in core physics work, when fluids and heat transfer play an important role in many places, including unlikely ones like astrophysics (atmospheric turbulence and cosmological fluid phenomena); and in experimental design. Hence it would be a valuable addition to their knowledge base as practical physicists.
