Course description from the student handbook

Tomas Bohr   (lectures) Department of Physics, Building 309, room 256, tel. 3310. E-mail: tbohr@fys.dtu.dk

Mogens Samuelsen (lecture) Department of Physics, Building 309, room 219, tel. 3248.
E-mail: mrs@fysik.dtu.dk

Lectures
Monday 11.10 - 12.30 and Thursday 9.35 - 10.55 Auditorium 38 in Building 306.

Exercises
Monday 13.30-15.30 in room 028 in Building 307.

Requirements
Three homework assignments are given during the semester and they replace the examination. Each assignment will be given a number of points. The final grade for the course (in the 13-scale) will be based on the points obtained in the individual assignments.

Course material
The lectures will be based on Benny Lautrup: Continuum Physics: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World (The Niels Bohr Institute 2000/2001), volume 1-2 which will be available from the first day of lectures (Feb. 5) at the Expedition at the main entrance of building 309 at a price of 100 kr pr. volume.

Additional useful literature
D. J. Tritton: Physical Fluid Dynamics (Oxford 1988)
D. J. Acheson: Elementary Fluid Dynamics (Oxford 1990)
M. van Dyke: An Album of Fluid Mechanics (The Parabolic Press 1982)
Claus Schelde Jacobsen: Introduktion til Fluid Mekanik (DTU 1998)
Jørgen Fredsøe: Hydrodynamik (DTU 1991)
Niels Olhoff og Arne Gudmann Nielsen: Noter til Styrkelære II (Faststofmekanik, DTU)
Pauli Pedersen: Elasticity - Anisotropy - Laminates (Solid Mechanics, DTU)
 

• Homework assignment 1: available March 1, due March 12. It can be found here after March 1.
• Homework assignment 2: available March 29, due April 19. It can be found here after March 29.
• Homework assignment 3: available May 10, due May 21. It can be found here after May 10. Additional material here.

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1. Monday, Feb 5 (TB): Continuum fields and equations. Dimensional analysis. Gallery of fluid motion. (Chap 1-2)

2. Thursday, Feb 8 (TB): Gravity (Chap 3)

3. Monday, Feb 12 (TB): Fluids at rest (Chap 4)

           Exercises: Problems for chapter  2  and 3 (in particular 2.8, 2.10 and 3.3)

4. Thursday, Feb 15 (TB): Buoyancy, stability of ships (Chap 5)

5. Monday, Feb 19 (TB): Planets and stars (Chap 6)

         Exercises: Problems for chapter  4 and 5 (in particular 4.5 and 5.5). Homework exercise #1 from 1999.

6. Thursday, Feb 22 (TB): White dwarf stars. Tides on the Earth. (Chap 6-7 + notes)

7. Monday, Feb 26 (TB): The shape of a rotating planet. Theory of Legendre polynomials. (Chap 7) Notes here.

         Exercises: Problems for chapter  6 and 7 (in particular 6.6  and 7.6). Homework exercise #1 from 2000.

8. Thursday, Mar 1 (MRS): Description of elastic bodies: Stress. (Chap 8) Assignment 1 available

9. Monday, Mar 5 (MRS): Description of elastic bodies: Strain. Elasticity of isotropic solids. (Chap 9)

          Exercises: Problems 6.5, 8.5, 8.6, and 8.10.

10. Thursday, Mar 8 (MRS):  Hookes law. (Chap 10)

11. Monday, Mar 12 (MRS):  Examples of elastic deformations. Elasticity in cylindrical and spherical coordinates (Chap 11). Assignment 1 due

          Exercises: Problems 9.3, and10.3.

12. Thursday, Mar 15 (MRS): Buckling.  Bending of beams. (Notes)

13. Monday, Mar 19 (MRS): Sound in solids. (Chap 12 + notes)

          Exercises: Discussion of Assignment 1.

14. Thursday, Mar 22 (TB): Fluids in motion. Euler's equation. (Chap 13 - 14)

15. Monday, Mar 26 (TB): Bernoulli's theorem. Potential flow. (Chap 14)

                               Exercises: Problems 13.1, 13.4,13.5, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5

16. Thursday, Mar 29 (TB): Examples of potential flows. (Chap 13 - 14). Assignment 2 available

17. Monday, Apr 2 (TB): The Navier Stokes equation. Simple laminar flows (Chap 15 - 16)

                  Exercises: Problems from chap. 15. KU Eksamen vinter 2000/20001.

18. Thursday, Apr 5 (TB):  Viscous flows with a free surface. Rotating Couette flow. Taylor vortices. (Chap 16)

Apr 9 - Apr 16: Easter Holidays

19. Thursday, Apr 19 (MRS):  Sound in Fluids. (Chap 17) Assignment 2 due.

20. Monday, Apr 23 (MRS):  Creeping flow. Stokes solution of a falling sphere. Exercises: Discussion of Assignment 2

21. Thursday, Apr 26 (MRS):   Surface waves I. (Notes)

22. Monday, Apr 30 (MRS):  Surface waves II. (Notes)

                            Exercises: To be assigned

23. Tuesday, May 3 (MRS):   Surface tension. Capillary waves. Rayleigh-Plateau instability. (Notes)

24. Monday, May 7 (MRS): Whirls and Vortices. (Chap 20)

                            Exercises: To be assigned

25. Thursday, May 10 (MRS): Rotating flows. Geostrophic approximation. Assignment 3 available (Chap 22)

Monday, May 14: no lecture

26. Thursday, May 17 (TB): The bathtub vortex  - lecture and demonstration (Chap 21 + 22.5)

27. Monday, May 21: Final lecture. Assignment 3 due.

Monday, May 28: Discussion of Assignment 3 and final marks (14:00 in room 250, 2. floor of building 309).