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Advanced Fluid Mechanics

Photo series showing large drop formed from thin liquid stream.
This photo sequence shows the "gobbling droplets" phenomenon. A jet of liquid is unstable because of surface tension and usually breaks into small droplets. The addition of minute quantities of polymeric molecules provides an additive elastic stress which stabilizes the liquid column. In this situation the terminal droplet has the time to gobble many of its incoming neighbors before its detachment. (Photo by Jose Bico and Christian Clasen, used courtesy of Prof. Gareth McKinley.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

2.25

As Taught In

Fall 2005

Level

Graduate

Course Features

Course Highlights

This course features a unit of interactive problems in the assignments section, and extensive study materials and related resources.

Course Description

This course surveys the principal concepts and methods of fluid dynamics. Topics include mass conservation, momentum, and energy equations for continua, the Navier-Stokes equation for viscous flows, similarity and dimensional analysis, lubrication theory, boundary layers and separation, circulation and vorticity theorems, potential flow, an introduction to turbulence, lift and drag, surface tension and surface tension driven flows. The class assumes students have had one prior undergraduate class in the area of fluid mechanics. Emphasis is placed on being able to formulate and solve typical problems of engineering importance.

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Gareth McKinley, Ahmed Ghoniem, Ain Sonin, and Anette Hosoi. 2.25 Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Fall 2005. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), https://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


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