Course manual 2018/2019
Course content
Ideal fluids
- Hydrostatics, stress tensor, Euler and Bernoulii equations
- Waves, instabilities, scattering and radiation
- Nonlinear phenomena, shock and stationary waves
Viscous fluids
- Navier-Stokes equation
- Reynolds number and flow at low Reynolds number
- Dynamics of linearized Navier-Stokes
- Brief introduction to turbulence
Elasticitytheory(small deformations)
- Stress tensor
- Dynamical behavior, waves, fluctuations and density of states
- Viscoelasticity and introduction to Rheology
SoftMattersystems
- Colloids and glasses
- Polymers
- Liquid crystals
- Biological applications
Study materials
Literature
Objectives
- Basic understanding of hydrodynamics
- Introduction to continuum mechanics and elasticity
- Skill/familiarity with nonlinear PDEs and nonlinear phenomena
- Introduction to common Soft Matter systems and their properties
Teaching methods
Learning activities
Activiteit | Aantal uur |
Hoorcollege | 14 |
Tentamen | 3 |
Werkcollege | 28 |
Zelfstudie | 123 |
Attendance
Programme's requirements concerning attendance (OER-B):
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Each student is expected to participate actively in each component of the programme that he/she signed up for. A student that does not attend the first two seminars of a course, will be administratively removed from the seminar group. A request for reregistration for the seminars can be applied to the programme coordinator.
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If a student cannot attend an obligatory component of a programme's component due to circumstances beyond his control, he must report in writing to the relevant teacher as soon as possible. The teacher, if necessary after consulting the study adviser, may decide to issue the student a replacing assignment.
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It is not allowed to miss obligatory commponents of the programme if there is no case of circumstances beyond one's control.
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In case of participating qualitatively or quantitatively insufficiently, the examiner can expel a student from further participation in the programme's component or a part of that component. Conditions for sufficient participation are set down in advance in the course manual.
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In addition to the above mentioned rules, in the first semester of the first year a student should be present in at least 80% of the seminars. Moreover, participation to midterm tests and obligatory homework is required. If the student does not comply with these obligations, the student is expelled from the resit of this course. Students in the double Bachelor's degree programme Mathematics and Physics are exempted from this requirement. In case of personal circumstances, as described in OER-A Article 6.4, a different study plan will be made in consultation with the study advisor.
Assessment
Fraud and plagiarism
The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl
Course structure
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The schedule for this course is published on DataNose.
Recommended prior knowledge: Statistical mechanics, partial differential equations.
Processed course evaluations
Below you will find the adjustments in the course design in response to the course evaluations.
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