I work at Cornell where I am the Meinig Family Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. I have taught engineering at various universities (Michigan/Stanford/Cornell) since 1992. I teach or have taught a variety of fluid mechanics classes at Cornell, including the MAE dept’s Introductory Fluid Mechanics class, the Intermediate Fluid Dynamics class, and two different classes on Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.
Professor Kirby Bot is my chatbot that answers fluid mechanics questions. Ashley Son and I developed it in 2024. There are of course many other chatbots, and many of them can answer fluid mechanics questions. Other chatbots annoy me because I think their answers are so often incorrect, as they repeat the wrong things from Wikipedia and the wrong things from YouTube over and over again. Professor Kirby Bot is powered by my notes, textbooks, message board responses, lectures, and videos, and so it talks more like me than other chatbots, which means I think its answers are usually right. And Professor Kirby Bot uses notation that matches my textbook “How Fluid Machines Work: an Introduction to Fluid Mechanics”, which we use in MAE3230 at Cornell. So if you are using that textbook, the symbols and terminology match. Professor Kirby Bot will also tell you what part of the textbook to read to learn more about the topic you are asking about.
Also, I check Professor Kirby Bot’s answers, so if one of Professor Kirby Bot’s answers has a little “Verified by Prof K” mark on it, it means I read its answer and I think it is correct.