Fluid Mechanics
Course contents (70 hr, 5 credits): hydrostatic pressure, conservation equations, Newtonian fluids, river hydraulics.
Course material
- Lecture notes notes (in French) (version 16.2 from 20/05/2019).
- A supplement provides mathematical tools and a summary of continuum mechanics.
- Example of hydraulic computation (case including a hydraulic jump) pdf version (a Mathematica notebook is also available).
- Slides
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Chapitre 1: physical properties of fluids
Chapitre 2: similarity
Chapitre 3: statics
Chapitre 4: conservation equation
Chapitre 5: free surface hydraulics
Chapitre 6: turbulence
Chapitre 7: pipe flows
Exercises
Exercise booklet: exercises (2019)
Bibliography
Books:
- “Hydrodynamique” by Graf et Altinakar, PPUR, 1st volume “Hydraulique fluviale” ;
- “Recueil d’exercices corrigés avec rappels de cours” by Raymond Comolet and Jacques Bonnin (Masson, Paris) ;
Recommendations:
- Etienne Guyon, Jean-Pierre Hulin, et Luc Petit : “Ce que disent les fluides” (Belin, Paris, 2005) and “hydrodynamique physique” (edp sciences).
- Yves Corboz : “Météorologie : 100 expériences pour comprendre les phénomènes météo” (Belin, Paris, 2008).
Links
- MOOC: from spring 2014 on, the fluid mechanics MOOC (“mécanique des fluides”, in French, with subtitles) jointly made by STI/LMFI (Prof. François Gallaire) and LHE has been available on EdX. Warning: this course covers 7 weeks and the fourteen-week semester at EPFL. It covers part of “introduction à la mécanique des fluides” and goes a step further (surface tension and kinematics). Access to the seven weeks:
- Online experiment: Sill and jump.
- Hands-on work: soon… perhaps.
- Prof. G.H. Girka’s lectures on fluid mechanics at the university of Kalrsruhe
- Prof. G.H. Girka’s lectures on hydraulics at the university of Kalrsruhe (in German)
- Yves Zech and Didier Bousmar’s interactive course (Université de Louvain) (in French)
- C.C. Mei’s course at MIT
- site sponsored by Cambridge University Press devoted to fluid mechanics