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Hons projects Grant Keady is prepared to supervise
In 2005, (
4A5 was be lectured in Semester 1,
with Nev Fowkes in charge while),
in Semester 2, Grant Keady and Andrew Bassom will be in charge of
4A4, Continuum Mech.)
Dear student, or intending 4A4 student,
Main recommended reading for 4A4 Acheson, Elementary Fluid Mechanics.
(There are also numerous books on the Web.
http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~sbrooks/book/nish.mit.edu/2006/Textbook/.
has moved somewhere.
The main text of this is OK, but the computer person who set up the
frames wrote "viscus" quite a lot where "viscous" is what was meant.)
For Computational Fluids, try
here for books on-line.
Assessment matters are treated in the
unit outline.
Project work
Not much of this unit will be on the Web. Well, with small classes
it easier to talk to people than to put stuff on the Web.
(
This fluids course from USA has more compressible flow than 4A4
which has none.
Other people maintain better collections of links in this area than
do I: here are links
http://www.efluids.com/,
replacing older links
from Princeton.)
I have decided to lecture fairly closely to
Acheson "Elementary Fluid Dynamics" (Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1990)
and to set some assignment questions from it.
"Continuum mechanics" is basically "applied p.d.e."
(partial differential equations).
Much of the interest in the subject comes from the interplay
between "physical intuition" (guesses about solutions)
and mathematics (what can be proved, can we devise nice model
examples, etc., etc.).
Major applications areas include elasticity and fluid mechanics.
This year's 4A4 will actually be a fluid mechanics course,
it being better to do one subject well than several less well.
Some Mathematica bits and pieces are
here.
Click here to see
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