Course 431

Lecturer: Professor L.J. Crane

Date: 1995-96

Groups: Optional JS and SS Mathematics, JS and SS Theoretical Physics, SS Two-subject Moderatorship

Prerequisites: 131, 231

Duration: 21 weeks.

Lectures per week: 3

Assessment:

Examinations: One 3-hour examination

The topics dealt with in this course are:

1. derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations, exact solutions of the Navier Stokes equations, Stokes flows, lubrication theory, irrotational inviscid flows, aerofoil theory;
2. Applications of fluid mechanics in meteorology.
3. derivation of the boundary layer equations, exact solutions, approximate methods of solution, separation of the boundary layer.

Objectives: This is a course in the mechanics of Newtonian fluids.