Seminar

A series of invited lectures on a variety of research programs. Required course; may be taken Pass/Fail. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

Fluid Mechanics

Mathematics of vectors and tensors, continuum hypothesis, Euler's axioms, Cauchy's theorem, change of frame, constitutive equations, ideal fluids, vorticity dynamics, potential and viscous flows, boundary conditions, Newtonian fluids. Prototype problems: converging flow, creeping flow, boundary layer, turbulence, macroscopic balances.
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