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Fluid Mechanics (MP353) (Spring 2011)

There will be a revision tutorial for the course on Tuesday May 17 at 12:00 in Hall C (the usual location for the lecture)
This is also a good opportunity to collect any assignments that you didn't get back yet.

Note: Details on the assignments and on the material covered appear on the Weekly Schedule .

Instructor

Joost Slingerland
Office Department of Mathematical Physics, Room 1.7D, Science Building (number 17 on this Map of the North Campus)
e-mail: joost-at-thphys-dot-nuim-dot-ie

Class meets

Lectures:
Tuesday, 12:05-12:55 in Hall C in the Arts Building (number 18 on this Map of the North Campus)
Thursday, 9:05-9:55 in Hall E in the Arts Building (number 18 on this Map of the North Campus)
Tutorials:
Wednesday, 10:05-10:55 in the New Seminar Room (NSEM) in the Iontas Building (this is the new building on the North Campus).

Course content

We will roughly cover the module content posted on the math department's webpage. A more accurate Weekly Schedule will appear gradually as the course evolves.

Text

There will be significant overlap with this set of lecture notes by Charles Nash .

I am also making my own lecture notes available.
Here are some links to the current version of these notes (djvu/PDF)
The djvu file is smaller and higher quality than the PDF file, so use that if possible.
If you discover any errors in these notes, or if you think something is missing or just not clear, please let me know (joost-dot-slingerland-at-thphys-dot-nuim-dot-ie).

The following books may also be useful for supplementary reading (though not easy!):

# Title: An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
# Author: G.K. Batchelor.
# Paperback: 635 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 15, 2000)
# ISBN-10: 0521663962
# ISBN-13: 978-0521663960

# Title: Fluid Mechanics, Second Edition: Volume 6 (Course of Theoretical Physics)
# Authors: L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz
# Paperback: 552 pages
# Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (January 15, 1987)
# ISBN-10: 0750627670
# ISBN-13: 978-0750627672

Exam and Continuous Assessment

There will be a one and a half hour written examination which counts for 80% of the mark. Continuous Assessment (that is, hand-in exercises), make up the remaining 20%.
If the mark for continuous assessment should be lower than the exam mark, then the exam will count for 100%.

Homework

There will be homework exercises to hand in roughly once per two weeks. These will be marked and the results will count for 20% of the final mark.

Please make sure your homework shows some cohesion as well as your name and student number. I encourage you to work on the homework in small groups; it is important to learn to communicate about the subject. However, please make sure you do fully understand the solutions to the problems and please write them up from scratch, in your own words. For this week's homework, see the Weekly Schedule

Previous years' exercises and exams

2008: please look here, (many thanks to Paul Watts for providing this resource)
2009: please look here.

For old exams, look here.

Feedback

If you have questions, comments or suggestions for the lectures and the webpage (maybe you don't like green :)), then please send me an email. I can't promise to make everybody happy, but I will try.