MATH 462 - Fluid Dynamics

Class Resources:

books & lecture notes (reserve list)

webct & discussion group (webct.sfu.ca)

This Week in MATH 462:

16 April

zip: vortex demos

15 April

link: vortex ring

link: get busy

link: ... but is it a vortex?

13 April

link: reynolds number

link: journal bearing

link: what you ever wanted to know about your car, but ...

Web Resources & Interest:

today

History (& possible Future):

  week 01: introduction to fluids

  week 02: physical derivation of Euler's equations

  week 03: Euler, Bernoulli and vorticity

  week 04: streamlines & irrotational flow

  week 05: intro to analytic functions & potential flow

  week 06: more potential flow

  week 07: theory of flight & surface waves

  week 08: stokes drift & midterm

  week 09: theory of sound

  week 10: 1D gas dynamics

  week 11: viscosity & stokes drag

  week 12: boundary layers & the reynolds number

  week 13: vortex dynamics