Basic principles: Hydrostatics, constant flow phenomena and waves
The treated theory includes:
- Archimedes’ Law, hydrostatic pressure
- Stability computations for floating structures – including the effect of shifting loads, and partially filled fluid tanks
- Potential flow basics, 2D potential flow elements, superposition principle
- Real (viscous) flows, scaling laws, flow regimes
- Fluid forces on structures, drag and lift, resistance and propulsion, wind and current loads
- Linear wave theory in regular and irregular waves and wave statistics
This video shows the basics of fluid cavitation, including demonstration from AvE. If you subject a fluid to a sudden change in pressure, some interesting things can happen. You can cause tremendous damage to moving parts, or you can harness this destructive power in many beneficial ways.
This class serves as an introduction to mass transport in environmental flows, with emphasis given to river and lake systems. The class will cover the derivation and solutions to the differential form of mass conservation equations. Class topics to be covered will include: molecular and turbulent diffusion, boundary layers, dissolution, bed-water exchange, air-water exchange and particle transport.
