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PHYS-F412

Dynamique des fluides et des plasmas

academic year
2023-2024
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Bernard KNAEPEN (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english, french

Course content

Fluid dynamics.
- Introduction
- Elementary Viscous Flow
- Waves
- Classical Airfoil Theory
- Vortex Motion
- The Navier-Stokes Equations
- Very Visqous Flow
- Instability, turbulence
- Magnetohydrodynamics

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Fluid dynamics has applications in a wide range of domains, including aeronautics, meteorology, astrophysics, nuclear fusion, blood flows or chemical front propagation. The course gives an introduction to the general concepts as well as various theoretical and numerical approaches used to describe fluid flows.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Required and Corequired knowledge and skills

- Vector calculus
- Calculus (integration - differentiation - differential operators)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lessons (mostly following the content of the book Fluid Dynamics - D.J. Acheson - Oxford University Press)
Assisted exercises -  sessions of questions / answers.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

Elementary Fluid Dynamics, D. J. Acheson, Cambridge University Press

An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, G.K. Batchelor, Cambridge University Press.

Introduction to Hydrodynamic Stability, P.G. Drazin, Cambridge University Press.

Course notes

  • Syllabus
  • Université virtuelle

Other information

Contacts

bernard.knaepen@ulb.be

Campus

Plaine

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Written exam based on the material given during the classes (theory and exercises).

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

Mark obtained for the written exam.

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french
  • (if applicable english )

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