- Lecturer: Eamonn Gaffney
General prerequisites:
B5.3 Viscous Flow, B5.4 Waves and Compressible Flow.
Course term: Michaelmas
Course lecture information: 16 lectures
Course weight: 1
Course level: M
Assessment type: Written Examination
Course overview:
The course will expand and illuminate the `classical' fluid mechanics taught in the third year B5.3 and B5.4 courses, and illustrate its modern application in a number of different applications.
Course synopsis:
The Navier Stokes equations and simplifications.
Surface tension and thin films, including lubrication theory, coatings, gravity flows, Marangoni effects, the steady state drag-out problem.
Droplet dynamics, contact lines, menisci. Drying and wetting.
Flow in porous media: Darcy's law; thermal and solutal convection; gravity-driven flow and carbon sequestration.
Aspects of low Reynolds flow in biological actuation and cell motility.
Surface tension and thin films, including lubrication theory, coatings, gravity flows, Marangoni effects, the steady state drag-out problem.
Droplet dynamics, contact lines, menisci. Drying and wetting.
Flow in porous media: Darcy's law; thermal and solutal convection; gravity-driven flow and carbon sequestration.
Aspects of low Reynolds flow in biological actuation and cell motility.