Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transport

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Obtaining a visa is often a lengthy process. Students who are still waiting for visa confirmation are contacted so that they can take part in at least some of the courses offered by FMHT.

Course content

This course includes the following topics:

• properties of fluids,
• basic conservation equations of fluid mechanics,
• Bernoulli equation,
• scaling and limiting cases: Euler, Stokes, and Navier-Stokes equations,
• viscous pipe flow,
• boundary layer equations,
• Reynolds-averaged turbulent equations,
• basic mechanisms of heat transport,
• concepts of heat transfer,
• equations of heat transport in laminar and turbulent flows.

Acquired competences

After the students have participated at this course, they are able to:

• characterize the continuum concept and to name the conserved quantities,
• formulate the momentum transport in both laminar and turbulent flows,
• apply this to simple 1D models, to pipes flows, and to boundary-layer flows,
• formulate the heat transport based on the continuum concept,
• apply this to the laminar and turbulent heat transport in the fluid bulk,
• to apply this to the heat transfer at walls within 1D models.

Preliminary Results 09/2024 (FMHT)

Lecture: Dr.-Ing. Konrad Boettcher

Tutorial: Dr.-Ing. Michael-David Fischer