Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 10.52 (Spring 2006) 
• Course Title:
• Mechanics of Fluids 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Chemical Engineering 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Kenneth Smith 
• Course Introduction:
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  10.52 Mechanics of Fluids
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2006

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a complete set of assignments and a list of fluid mechanics films in study materials.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course is an advanced subject in fluid and continuum mechanics. The course content includes kinematics, macroscopic balances for linear and angular momentum, stress tensors, creeping flows and the lubrication approximation, the boundary layer approximation, linear stability theory, and some simple turbulent flows.