After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• Understand advanced notions of fluid mechanics, integrating specific knowledge with that of previous courses of fluid mechanics as well as with that of other related fields in engineering (for example thermodynamics);
• follow specific physico-mathematical reasoning that are required to understand and model fluid mechanics problems;
• understand and solve simple problems encountered in industrial and environmental applications;
• develop learning skills necessary to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy;

• 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

Calculation of examples and case studies at the blackboard will be used to support students in achieving the expected learning outcomes.

NOTE: VO lectures will start on Thursday October 6th

Students have to write a final written exam to assess whether they have achieved the expected knowledge and preparation.

Scores:

Final grades are assigned according with the following table:

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

Registration is madatory to access the lectures and the material

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