AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Aim of the course is to provide the student with the elements and the language of continuum mechanics applied to problems of solids and fluid mechanics

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

- Kinematics of fluids

- The equations of motion

- Constitutive equation for Newtonian fluids

- The Navier-Stokes equations

- Buckingham's theorem and dimensionless form of the equations of fluid motion

- Unidirectional flows

- Low Reynolds number flows

- Large Reynolds number flows

- Introduction to turbulent flows

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes provded by the lecturer

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARCO LEPIDI (President)

RODOLFO REPETTO (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

26/02/2018

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

At the end of the course the the student is expecte to:
- have a good knowledge of the basic concepts of fluid mechanics

- be able to formulate/solve simple fluid flows

Exam schedule