Hi Genghis
Thank you for your advice. However, I also know someone else (sorry Rigger, she's a 'young' woman ) who sailed through first year Aero Eng at Hertfordshire Uni...(that place near Hatfield ?), and dropped out after the first term of her 2nd year saying that fluid mechanics became 'impossible'...This (apologies again to Rigger) young lady is now at Aberdeen Uni doing a Physics degree.
I would welcome hearing all your views.
All the best.
Yep, I felt like that about fluid mechanics on occasion as well (my troubles started - about the point our lecturer started bringing calculus of imaginary numbers to allow algebraic modelling of a 2-D flowfield with a single equation.)
The fact is, aero-eng is a very difficult subject to learn, and all of us really struggle with parts of it - for me it was mostly the more complex bits of force-based structural analysis (although I'd have got to that point pretty quickly in fluid mechanics if I'd done the 3rd year optional courses in it I suspect). Similarly we all have our strong subjects, and most courses, once we've hacked our way through the basics, allow us to specialise - in my case that was on design and flight mechanics based issues.
G