Viscous Flow M3A10/M4A10

The syllabus for this course covers:

• Derivation of the Navier Stokes Equations. Incompressible flow.
• Exact solutions of the equations of motion.
• General Principles of viscous flows. Reynolds number, dynamical similarity and vorticity.
• Lubrication theory. How thin films can support heavy weights.
• Low Reynolds number flows (slow small and sticky). A video will be shown illustrating this part of the course.
• High Reynolds number flows (fast, big and smooth). Boundary layer theory.