Fluid
Physics Track – Course Information
Note: Below information is for
the 2005-2006 courses. See VIST for more
up-to-date course information.
Compulsary
Track Courses
Advanced Fluid Mechanics (5 ects)
Short description: The focus of this advanced fluid physics course will be on analytical
methods and techniques used in present-day research. Topics are the Navier
Stokes equations, energy equations, potential flow in 2D and 3D, Stokes flow,
surface waves, boundary layers, self-similarity and intermediate asymptotics.
Previous knowledge: Physics of Fluids or another introductory course in fluid mechanics
(required).
Course material: Pijush K. Kundu, Ira M. Cohen, Fluid
Mechanics, 3rd Ed., Elsevier Academic Press,
Examination: exercises during the course, written/oral exam at the end of the
course.
Teaching Staff: dr. D. van der Meer, ir. G.J. de Bruin.
Capillarity Phenomena (5
ects)
Short description: Capillarity is the study of the interfaces between two immiscible fluids
or a fluid and a solid. Topics of this course are surface tension, capillary
rise, thin films, wetting and dewetting, electrowetting, capillary waves,
surfactants, special interfaces.
Previous knowledge: Physics of Fluids or another introductory course in fluid mechanics
(required).
Course material: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Françoise Brochard-Wyart, David Quéré, Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena,
Springer Science and Business Media, New York USA (2003).
Examination: exercises during the course, written/oral exam at the end of the course.
Teaching Staff: prof. dr. F. Mugele, Dipl. Phys. H. Rathgen
Numerical Techniques for Partial Differential
Equations (5 ects)
Short description: Numerical analysis for partial differential equations in practical
applications from applied mathematics, engineering and physics: Hyperbolic and
parabolic equations (waves and diffusion). Accuracy, stability, and convergence
of finite difference and finite volume methods. Boundary conditions.
Previous knowledge:
Course material: K.W. Morton and D.F. Mayers, Numerical
Solution of Partial Differential Equations, Cambridge University Press,
Examination: Three combined theoretical and numerical exercises and an oral
examination.
Teaching Staff: dr.ir. O. Bokhove, prof.dr.ir. B.J. Geurts
Experimental Techniques in Physics of Fluids (5 ects)
Short description: An introduction to experimental techniques in fluid dynamics, like
particle image velocimetry, laser-doppler anemometry, hot-wire anemometry, and
high speed imaging. In lectures principles and specific advantages and
limitations will be discussed. Methods will be illustrated in informative and
hands-on labtours, and by performing laboratory experiments.
Previous knowledge: Physics of Fluids or another introductory course in fluid physics,
laboratory courses (required).
Course material: Reader (power-point presentations through Teletop)
Examination: lab reports.
Teaching Staff: dr.
C.-D. Ohl
Chair Specific
Courses (Physics of Fluids group):
Turbulence (5
ects)
Short description: Navier Stokes equation, hydrodynamical instabilities, routes to chaos,
transition to turbulence, statistical desciption of turbulent flow, Rayleigh-Bénard
convection, Boussinesq equation, potential flows, mean flow equations, free
shear flow, fully developed turbulence, Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence,
intermittency, boundary layer theory, numerical flow simulations.
Previous knowledge: Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Partial Differential Equations.
Course material: S.B. Pope, Turbulent Flows,
Cambridge Univ. Press,
Examination: t.b.a.
Teaching Staff: prof. dr. D. Lohse
Bubbles (2,5
ects)
Short description: The Bubble course consists of 2 parts. 4 lectures on the physics of
single bubbles and 4 lectures on the behavior of multiple bubbles and bubble
clouds. The course treats the forces on bubbles, the acoustics of bubbles and
bubble clouds, microstreaming and jets due to bubble oscillation and collapse.
Previous knowledge: Introductory course fluid mechanics
(required), Advanced Fluid Mechanics (recommended)
Course material: T.G. Leighton, The Acoustic Bubble,
Academic Press (1997) ISBN: 0124419216 (recommended).
Examination: t.b.a.
Teaching Staff: dr. M. Versluis.
Granular Matter (2,5
ects)
Short
description: Granular matter can be considered as the
fourth state of matter: Depending on the situation, granular matter can behave
as a solid, a liquid, or a gas, but always has its own peculiar properties.
When dry sand is poured, it acts as a fluid. The pile on which it is poured is
solid-like, stabilized by forces in between the sand beeds. When dry sand is
strongly shaken or fluidized through a gas stream, it behaves gas-like. This
course gives an introduction to granular matter in its various forms.
Previous
knowledge: Introductory statistical physics course.
Course
material: Jacques Duran, Sands, powders, and grains. An introduction to the physics of granular
materials, Springer-Verlag,
Examination: t.b.a.
Teaching Staff: prof. dr. D. Lohse
Chair Specific
Courses (Physics of Complex Fluids group):
Soft Matter (5
ects)
(see also Complex Dispersion Rheology group)
Short description:
Soft matter comes in a great variety of materials, ranging from simple
atomistic or molecular liquids to polymers, self-assembled amphiphiles forming
various two or three dimensional mesoscopic structures and colloidal
dispersions. In this course we study the structure and thermodynamics of these
systems emphasizing similarities between different systems. In the second part
of the course we address dynamic processes like diffusion and viscoelastic
relaxation.
Course material: J-L
Barrat and J-P Hansen, Basic concepts for simple and complex liquids, Cambridge
Press, 2003
Teaching staff:
W.J. Briels, W.K. den Otter and J.T.
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Bionanotechnology and Nanofluidics (5 ects)
(This course is also part of the Nanotechnology Master program.)
Short description: Topics
as liquid structure near solid-liquid interfaces, hydrodynamic boundary
conditions and electro-kinetic effects;
basics of colloidal physics&chemistry; Furthermore, this module will
introduce you to subjects as structures of bio-molecules, recombinant DNA
technology, interfacing bio with non-bio materials, etc.
Previous knowledge: Introductory course fluid mechanics
(required)
Examination: t.b.a.
Teaching Staff: Dr. M. Bennink; Prof. Dr. F. Mugele
Chair Specific
Courses (Complex Dispersion Rheology group):
Soft Matter (5
ects)
(see also Physics of Complex Fluids group)
Short description:
Soft matter comes in a great variety of materials, ranging from simple
atomistic or molecular liquids to polymers, self-assembled amphiphiles forming
various two or three dimensional mesoscopic structures and colloidal
dispersions. In this course we study the structure and thermodynamics of these
systems emphasizing similarities between different systems. In the second part
of the course we address dynamic processes like diffusion and viscoelastic
relaxation.
Course material: J-L
Barrat and J-P Hansen, Basic concepts for simple and complex liquids, Cambridge
Press, 2003
Teaching staff:
W.J. Briels, W.K. den Otter and J.T.
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Continuum Mechanics & Physical Hydrodynamics (5 ects)
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