Mechanics of fluids





  • Use Navier-Stokes as background on your lap-top, cell phone ...

  • Oil flow in a gearbox

  • Short Python introduction
  • Short Matlab introduction
  • Matlab commands in Python
  • Effect of panel shape of soccer ball on its flight characteristics: free-kicks, rotation, ball trajectories for free-kicks in worldcup in football


  • L. Davidson, 'An introduction to turbulence models' (Chapters 3 and 4 are relevant for this course)

  • Intro on Reynolds averaging (slides with movies, 18MB; best viewed with Acroread)

  • CFD-online: an online center for Computational Fluid Dynamics)
  • Notes on Computational Fluid Dynamics: General Principles