MT3261: Viscous Fluid Flow

Many members of staff in the department have research interests in fluid mechanics and this course will lay the foundations for possible future postgraduate work in this discipline.

This course is currently taught by Dr. Matthias Heil. This page provides online access to the lecture notes, example sheets and other handouts and announcements.

Please note that the lecture notes only summarize the main results and will generally be handed out after the material has been covered in the lecture.

If you have any questions about the lecture, please see me in my office (18.07), contact me by email ( M.Heil@maths.man.ac.uk) or catch me after the lecture.

Assessment:

Coursework:

Handouts:

• Handout for Introduction and Chapter 1 (ps) .
• Example sheet I (ps) .
• Example sheet II -- to be handed in Oct. 05 (ps) .
• Handout for Chapter 2 (ps) .
• Example sheet III -- to be handed in Oct. 12 (ps) .
• Handout for Chapter 3 (ps) .
• Handout for Chapter 4 (ps) .
• Example sheet IV -- to be handed in Oct. 19 (ps) .
• Example sheet V -- to be handed in Oct. 26 (ps) .
• Handout for Chapter 5 (ps) .
• Example sheet VI -- to be handed in Nov. 9 (ps) .
• Animation of the flow above an oscillating plate.
• Animation of the flow profile in a channel with porous walls and constant transverse velocity.
• Handout for Chapter 6 (ps) .
• Example sheet VII -- to be handed in Nov. 16 (ps) .
• Copy of OHP transparencies on Scaling and Dimensional Analysis (ps) .
• Handout for Chapter 7 (ps) .
• Example sheet VIII -- to be handed in Nov. 30 (ps) .
• Copy of OHP transparencies on the streamfunction-vorticity equation (ps) .
• Handout for Chapter 8 (ps) .
• Flowfield for zero Reynolds number scraping flow (ps) .
• Example sheet IX -- to be handed in Dec. 7 (ps) .
• Copy of OHP transparencies on boundary layers (ps) .

Please note a few corrections for previous handouts (the files above have already been corrected).