To give Engineering students a deeper and more thorough grounding in principles and fundamental applications of fluid mechanics.

• Lecture 1 - Adimensionalization
• Lecture 2 - Creeping Flow           
• Lecture 3 - Lubrication theory I
• Lecture 4 - Lubrication theory II
• Lecture 5 - Application of Lubrication theory
• Lecture 6 - Potential flow
• Lecture 6 - Potential flow and drag on slender body
• Lecture 7 - D' Alembert paradox
• Lecture 8 - Boundary layer: theory and Stokes problem
• Lecture 9 - Boundary layer: flat plate, Blasius solution, separation and classification
• Lecture 10 - Turbulence phenomena and modelling
• Lecture 11 - Modelling of the Reynolds stresses
• Lecture 12 - Law of the wall (Turbulent flow in a pipe)
• Lecture 13 – Summary exercises

NOTE: VO lectures will start Thursday October 5th 

Exams: Each semester, students will have the possibility to give the exam in three different dates. The dates will be announced well in advance.

Structure of each exam: All exams are in written form. Each exam consists of two problems. Each problem is subdivided in two or more parts (Questions). To each Question a score is assigned so that the maximum score that can be achieved for a perfect exam is 100.

Scores: As a general guideline, scores will be assigned according with the following table.

SCORE                GRADE

<50   -> (fail)          5
51-65 -> (pass)      4
66-73 -> (pass)      3
74-85 -> (pass)      2
>86 -> (pass)         1

Lecture notes.

For more on these topics, see:

• –  M.M. Denn. Process Fluid Mechanics, Ed. Prentice-Hall, 1980 
• –  R.L. Panton, Incompressible Flow, Ed. Wiley & Sons, 1960 
• –  S.B. Pope, Turbulent Flows, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2000 
• –  Collection of examples