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Title: BEM366, Fluid Mechanics II
Institution: University of Nairobi, Kenya

Level:
Degree, continuing education.

Description:
Potential Flow: Complex potential. Basic singularities. Superposition of solutions. Method of images. Conformal transformation. Blasius theorem. Dynamics of Real Fluids: Viscosity and Reynold's number. Brief description of the boundary layer.

Stress and rate-of-strain tensor. Incompressible viscous fluid, Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid. Some exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. Very slow motion. Applications.

Assessment is by assignments and examination.

Programmes for which this course is required or in which it can be included:

Bachelor of Education (Arts).


Languages:
English

Media and methods employed: Printed text, face-to-face tutorials, audio cassettes, residential schools.
Printed correspondence texts prepared by/for institution, face-to-face tutoring, audio cassettes, residential schools, tutorial support.

Administrative information:
This is a one unit course and requires approximately 70 hours of study.


Classification:
070430 PHYSICS
070315 CALCULUS, ANALYSIS, DYNAMICS

Date: 1 July 1993 ymmm
Source: University of Nairobi Syllabus

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