Mechanics of Continua – FS 2013

Link to the UZH page of the course.

Modifications on the time schedule

• 19th February: Lecture at 10:45 (as usual) but the exercise class takes place in Y13 L11 for all students!
• 26th February: Note the new room and starting time of the teaching classes.

Assistance groups:

• The condition to obtain the testat is to hand in 75% of the exercises individually, i.e. it is not allowed to hand in solutions in groups.
• Please do not hesitate to contact us in case of questions and difficulties!

Lectures' slides:

Students who would like to download the latest updates are asked to check it directly here.

• Introduction
• Lecture 1: Classical mechanics. Solid mechanics. Stress. Deformation. Strain.
• Lecture 2: Elastic deformations. Stress modulus and stability of the material. The Navier equation.
• Lecture 3: Elastic waves. Seismic applications. Waves in beams. Dislocations.
• Lecture 4: Fluid mechanics. Conservation laws. Energy equation. Real, ideal and incompressible fluids.
• Lecture 5: Helmholtz decomposition, Circulation theorem, Vorticity equation, Bernoulli theorem.
• Lecture 6: Sound waves, Gravity waves, Instabilities, Shock formation and Shock waves
• Lecture 7: 2D Potential flow, Velocity potential, Complex potential, Blasius formulae, Kutta condition, Kutta-Joukowski theorem.
• Lecture 8: Incompressible viscous flows, Planar viscous flows, Couette and Poiseuille stationary flows, Boundary layer theory, Turbulence

Exercises

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 10
• Exercise 11
• Exercise 12
• Exercise 13
• Exercise 14 (Please follow the instructions here in advance in order to to be prepared for the exercise class)