OVERVIEW

Advanced course on fluid mechanics.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge necessary to address the study of motion of bodies in  viscous fluids. The course describes the equations for the motion of fluids, as well as relevant models for  marine hydrodynamics.

TEACHING METHODS

frontal lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Continuous medium. Fluid properties. Fluid kinematics. The stress tensor. Cardinal flow equations.  Boundary
conditions.
Viscous fluid dynamics: Navier­Stokes equations. Unidirectional flows. Basics of vorticity dynamics. High Reynolds
number flows. Inviscid fluid dynamics:  Bernoulli theorem.  Irrotational flows.  D'Alembert paradox. Kutta­
Joukowsky's theorem. Conformal mapping.
Boundary layers: concepts, governing equations and  interpretations.
Turbulence: mean flow equations. The closure  problem and Boussinesq assuption. Turbulence models.
Forces on immersed bodies: Lift, form drag, viscous drag, added mass.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Teacher's lectures notes(in Italian)

2. Ronald Panton "Incompressible flow" Wiley and Sons

3. Pijush K. Kundu, Ira M. Cohen and David R. Dowling "Fluid Mechanics - fifth edition" Elsevier 2012

4. G. K. Batchelor "An introduction to fluid dynamics" Cambridge university  press

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ILARIA MONETTO (President)

GIOVANNA VITTORI (President)

GIOVANNI BESIO

PAOLO BLONDEAUX

FRANCESCA CAMPI

FRANCESCO ENRILE

LUIGI GAMBAROTTA

ROBERTA MASSABO'

RODOLFO REPETTO

NICOLETTA TAMBRONI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

September 19th

Class schedule

HYDRODYNAMICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

written exam and oral interview

Exam schedule