Physics 426 Fluid Mechanics
Physics 426 Fluid Mechanics
Spring 2025
- Instructor: Jody Klymak
- Email: jklymak@uvic.ca
- Office Hours: By appointment
- Meeting time: TWF 11:30-12:20
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Location: Bob Wright B121
- Lab Instructor: Andrew MacRae
- macrae@uvic.ca
Course Description
Introductory Fluid Mechanics with a focus on applied natural world problems, including hydraulic flow over a weir in a channel, surface wave dynamics, lift due to flow over an airfoil, and onset of instabilities that lead to turbulence.
Course Objectives
- Improved ability to linearize and simplify problems using scaling laws
- Better appreciation of exploring parameter space for complex phenomena
- Improved ability to create and analyse numerical simulations
- Practice demonstrating and explaining phenomena to classmates.
Schedule
Texts
Largely Kundu and Cohen Latest edition, but also see Texts.
Notes for missed two weeks:
Other resources
- National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films are still excellent 58 years later. There are written notes as well.
- Notes on Shocks
- Notes on hydrostatic non-linear flow
- Movie Shear Simulation
Course grading
- 10% Class participation and attendance
- 40% Assignments and Readings;
- 25% Student-led Laboratory Demonstrations;
- 25% Take-home Final Exam
Late work penalized as 10% per day, max 5 days. Academic concessions will be granted with appropriate documentation as per UVic’s regulations. Working together on assignments is acceptable, but they are to be handed in independently. The final examination will be done individually. Students are expected to follow the UVic standards for academic integrity.
Laboratory Demonstrations
Assignments
Course Evaluation Survey
These are filled out online at ces.uvic.ca. There should be a link to this course on your dashboard.
BrightSpace
- We will use BrightSpace to hand in assignments, and I will link to the assignments here.
- We will use BrightSpace for announcements and discussions.