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MTH3360

Faculty of Science

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Science

Organisational Unit

School of Mathematical Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Dr Anja Slim and Professor Phil Hall

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

The continuum hypothesis; notion of a fluid particle; pathlines and streamlines. Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks; the material derivative. Conservation of mass; incompressibility; streamfunctions. Forces acting on a fluid; the stress tensor; conservation of momentum; the constitutive relation; the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Boundary conditions. Exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equations. Non-dimensionalization and dimensional analysis; Reynolds number. Low Reynolds number flows. Vorticity; circulation; Helmholtz' vorticity equation; properties of vorticity; Kelvin's circulation theorem. Lubrication theory. Inviscid flows; potential flows. Boundary layer equations and flows.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will be able to:

  1. Explain the scope of fluid dynamics in the physical sciences;
  2. Understand the mathematical description of fluid motion;
  3. Summarise the derivation of the equations of incompressible fluid motion;
  4. Understand and apply the process of scaling to simplify the governing equations for viscous and inertia dominated flows;
  5. Understand and apply the process of scaling to lubrication and boundary layer flows;
  6. Solve the governing and reduced equations in simple situations and understand the physical implications of the solutions and their limitations.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 60%
Assignments and tutorial work: 22.5%
Tests: 17.5%

Workload requirements

Three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour support class per week

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Chief examiner(s)

Professor Phil Hall

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Applied mathematics
Mathematical statistics
Mathematics

Prerequisites

MTH2010 or MTH2015, and MTH2032, or equivalent