Graduate-level introduction to mathematical modeling of heat and mass transfer (diffusion and convection), fluid dynamics, chemical reactions, and phase transformations.
Analysis of Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online
Overview
Syllabus
- Unidirectional Couette and Poiseuille flows
- Lubrication approximation and the Reynolds lubrication equation
- Linear and nonlinear waves and the method of characteristics
- Tensor algebra and calculus for continuum mechanics
- Navier–Stokes equations
- Creeping flow at low Reynolds number
- Inertial flow at high Reynolds number; turbulence
- Interfacial tension, wetting, and thin films
- Linear stability analysis
Taught by
Martin Bazant and Joey Gu
